Kamal Ismail, state minister of foreign affairs, told state-owned media that South Sudan had promised to expel insurgencies within 21 days during a visit by First Vice President Taban Deng Gai last month.
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The watchdog’s report also implicated worldwide banks, businesses, arms brokers, property companies and lawyers in “knowingly or unknowingly facilitating the violent kleptocracy that South Sudan has become”.
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, ordered a private plane to dispatch the supplies to those fleeing conflict in South Sudan.
South Sudan’s president on Saturday condemned a human rights group report that alleges he and other top members of the government have profited from the country’s three-year civil war that has killed thousands of citizens.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (C) explains to U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power (R) the effects of recent fighting during a visit by the United Nations Security Council, delegation at the Presidential Palace in the capital of Juba, September 4, 2016.
Tens of thousands of people have died in South Sudan and more than 2.5 million driven from their homes since a brutal civil war erupted in the world’s youngest country in December 2013. More than 1.6 million people were displaced within the country, he added. “They include survivors of violent attacks, sexual assault, children that have been separated from their parents or travelled alone, the disabled, the elderly and people in need of urgent medical care”, it said in a statement received in Juba.
“Most of those fleeing South Sudan are women and children”, Leo Dobbs, a spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said at a briefing held at the UN Office at Geneva on Friday.
Ethiopia (292,000) and Sudan (247,317) are the second and third largest hosts to people fleeing South Sudan.
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Both civilians and foreigners, including aid workers, were targeted in the July chaos by soldiers who raped women and girls, conducted mock executions and forced people at one hotel compound to watch as they executed a local journalist. A peace deal signed last August between the rival leaders led to the formation of a unity government in April, but failed to quell the latest violence, which caused new waves of displacement. However, fighting broke out again in July and this prompted Machar to flee to Sudan.
