GSDF members leave for S. Sudan

GSDF members leave for S. Sudan

NARITA, Japan - A 34-member group of Ground Self-Defense Force personnel leaves Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Jan. 14, 2012, for South Sudan to prepare for Japan's full-fledged participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations there. Japan plans to send around 210 members of the GSDF engineering unit to the country between mid-February and the end of March to build roads and bridges as part of the peacekeeping operations in the fledgling nation. (Kyodo)

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