India, a major contributor to UNpeacekeepingforces around the world, contributes around 2, 200 personnel to two battalions in South Sudan - one based in Jonglei and the other in Malakkal, on the border with Sudan.
Since October, Eritrea has imposed a ban on helicopter flights by the UNpeacekeepingforces along the border, and then in December, demanded that the nationals of some of the countries participating in that peacekeeping force be withdrawn.