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A Chinese inmate, who is serving a one-year sentence in Ghana, has escaped while receiving medical care at a hospital in the capital, Accra.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the deployment of 2,900 soldiers to aid in the fight against armed rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The inmate, Wang Xiao, was serving a one-year jail term for theft at the Nsawam Prison, in the south of the country.
The troops will be posted as part of the southern African mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC), which was approved by the regional bloc in May last year. He is said to have reported being sick on Wednesday and taken to a nearby hospital.
Malawi and Tanzania will also contribute troops to the mission. But he reportedly escaped from the hands of the prison officers who had escorted him to the health facility.
The mission is replacing the East African regional force, which left DR Congo last December after the government deemed it ineffective. The Ghana Prisons Service has reportedly issued a wanted re-arrest notice of the inmate.
The deployment will cost South Africa 2bn Rand ($105m; £83m) and is set to last until December this year, a statement from the presidency said.
The announcement comes amid a resurgence of fighting that has seen tens of thousands, added to the nearly seven million who have been forced from their homes in DR Congo because of multiple conflicts.
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