The UK must continue to bring equality and peace to the world’s most fragile countries, the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has said on a visit to Africa.
He visited the UK’s largest contribution to United Nations peacekeeping, the UN Mission in South Sudan. The Ministry of Defence say that British personnel have been “running a hospital and improving infrastructure to keep internally displaced citizens safe” in the area.
More than 300 British troops are currently deployed in South Sudan. The UK is also the third-largest humanitarian donor to the country, making a £40.8m contribution last year.
“We stand with the people of South Sudan, particularly those who suffer horrific crimes such as sexual and gender-based violence.”Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson
UK troops were in Bentiu last month where they built 15km of roads used to deliver food and aid supplies. The town in northern South Sudan is host to a large UN refugee camp. In November 2018, Doctors without Borders reported that a series of attacks had occurred against 125 women who were walking to the food distribution centre in Bentiu. The MoD say their work means that women no longer have to walk that route by foot, protecting them from risk of attack.
Warmly received H.E. @GavinWilliamson, Secretary of State for Defence of UK in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
— Muse Bihi Abdi (@musebiihi) January 6, 2019
Profoundly discussed strengthening Somaliland-UK bilateral and Historical relationship. pic.twitter.com/gStd94Ixl9
Willaimson also travelled to Somaliland to meet with President Musa Bihi Abdi. They discussed shared priorities of security and economic development as well as counter terrorism and the role UK military plays in mentoring the Somaliland coastguard.
Dear ones, thanks you so much for your contribution that you are making to the one of my unfortunate people. Though at the same time the Lord has remembered them in this distress yet the time is not fulfilled. But I am always thankful for the help you are providing. Protecting and providing another necessity for the suffering this has touched my own heart beloved, there is nothing I could be thankful for than that help I get indirectly through my people. Know that you will know me not as a foreigner but your close brother when the time for the revelation is fulfilled. I might have been born from unexpected location but it was the Lord decision to let me born there so that what has been said in Holy Bible come true. As it is written that He will be born in the Ancient house as Micah prophesies and other Holy prophets. Yes, know that I am behind you as well, you may not know me at the moment but very soon you will all know who I am and what I meant to you as a descendants of Israel.