Today (5 January), Mongolian Armed Forces has reported that Mongolian peacekeepers were infected with malaria while serving with a UN peacekeeping in Sudan.

Out of 850 military personnel, nine were infected and have been receiving treatment in Mongolia. Unfortunately, a peacekeeper has died of the deadly disease after returning Ulaanbaatar from South Sudan.

The peacekeepers began showing symptoms of malaria since returning Mongolia and they were hospitalized. Later, one of the servicemen died in the Military Central Hospital.

The fourth unit of the 11th Motorized Rifle Battalion of Mongolia, which has played a role in the United Nations “UNMISS” peacekeeping operation in the Republic of South Sudan, returned home on 21 December, 2022.

The last or fifth round will return to the country on the 15th of this month.