South Sudan’s government is challenging a new report by a USA -based watchdog group that says the country’s leaders have amassed wealth overseas amid a conflict in which tens of thousands have been killed.
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It called on donors to contribute the remaining four-fifths of a total $US701 million needed for South Sudanese refugee operations.
The economy of the world’s newest nation has been hard hit by recurring civil unrest, but President Kiir’s government is notorious for overspending on its political and military elite. All this “while much of their country’s population suffers from the consequences of a brutal civil war and, in many places, experiences near-famine conditions”, read part of the report by The Sentry.
Deng visited Khartoum on August 21-22, on his first trip as vice president, and held talks on outstanding issues between the two countries since Sudan’s north-south split.
Smaller numbers of South Sudanese refugees have fled to Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
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Previously, Lul Ruai Koang, spokesman of the SPLA forces in Juba, told Radio Tamazuj that they did not receive any official letter from the government to expel the Sudanese armed movements from South Sudan.
“With this milestone, South Sudan joins Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia as countries which have produced more than a million refugees”, said Dobbs.
A recently released report by Sentry, an investigative group co-founded by actor George Clooney, leaders in the war-torn country have transferred millions of dollars outside the country to personal accounts, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Refugees wait for water at the Protection of Civilians site 3 of the United Nations Mission In South Sudan in Juba, capital of South Sudan, Aug. 13, 2016.
The United States on Wednesday, September 14, threatened to push for a UN arms embargo on South Sudan if the government blocks the deployment of a new regional force and impedes the work of UN peacekeepers.
South Sudan’s leading English-language newspaper was absent from newsstands Thursday after being shut down by the government.
According to advocacy group Human Rights Watch, at least 2.2 million people have been displaced by the conflicts and tens of thousands have been killed.
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Dak further said the South Sudanese president, Kiir, has lost his opportunity to go down the history as a leader whose leadership gave birth to the independence of South Sudan and would have united the people and laid the foundation for development for the future generations.
