Japan orders troops to withdraw from South Sudan by late May

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada speaks during a meeting with senior ministry officials in Tokyo on March 24, 2017. Later in the day Inada ordered the Self-Defense Forces to withdraw from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan by late May, ending a more than five-year deployment of Japanese troops in the fledgling African country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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