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Kenya says its will withdraw its troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
This is after the United Nations sacked a Kenyan who led the force. A UN inquiry accuses Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki of not responding to an attack on a hotel in the South Sudanese capital Juba in July. The inquiry also found that during the assault civilians in the hotel were subjected to and witnessed murder, sexual violence and torture.The UN’s secretary general Ban Ki-moon, expressed alarm at UNMISS’ failures.
The Kenyan government has rejected the findings of the inquiry.
