UN peacekeepers in South Sudan accused of paying for sex
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The United Nations mission in South Sudan says it has recalled a 46-member peacekeeping police unit after some members allegedly paid local women living in a protection camp for sex.
A U.N. statement says the Ghanaian policemen have been recalled from Wau to the capital, Juba.
The U.N. chief in South Sudan, David Shearer, calls it a "clear breach" of the code of conduct, which prohibits sexual relationships with vulnerable people.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"We should not have such people in this country," South Sudan government spokesman Michael Makuei tells The Associated Press.
The United Nations has 17,000 peacekeepers in civil war-torn South Sudan.
The U.N. in recent years has struggled to deal with numerous cases of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers in some of the world's poorest nations.