U.S. military repositions Africa forces amid South Sudan violence

U.S. Africa Command is repositioning its forces as the U.S. military prepares for the possibility of further evacuations of American and other citizens from the deepening conflict in South Sudan, the Pentagon said on Monday. "The combatant commander is repositioning his forces in the region to ensure that we've got capabilities necessary to respond to any request from the State Department," Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. Warren declined to say whether U.S. troops would be sent to South Sudan, where fears of an all-out civil war are mounting, or elsewhere in the region. South Sudan's government said on Monday it will start a major offensive to retake two strategic towns controlled by rebels loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar.



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