Haley Safe After Violent Protests Required Evacuation From South Sudan Refugee Camp
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is safe after she had to be evacuated from a refugee camp in South Sudan on Wednesday.
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U.S. Sanctions South Sudan Officials Accused of Corruption While Many Starve
The U.S. government announced Wednesday that the Treasury Department has placed targeted sanctions on South Sudanese officials and companies, saying the targets personally profited from a climate of corruption at the expense of many of the country’s residents.
‘Stage Is Being Set’ for Genocide in South Sudan Amid Ethnic Cleansing
The United Nations declared on Thursday that the “stage is being set” for a repeat of the Rwandan genocide as ethnic cleansing is being carried out in certain areas of South Sudan.
U.S., U.N. Stood by While South Sudan Troops Raped, Beat Aid Workers
South Sudanese troops ravaged through a hotel complex frequented by foreign aid workers last month while a United Nations force stood by in a neighboring area and the U.S. Embassy did not act despite repeated pleas for help to both.
State Department Can’t Defend Selling Airplanes to a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Obama Administration Eases Sanctions on Sudan
The Obama administration’s decision to loosen certain sanctions on Sudan’s government—which is accused of genocide and supporting terrorism—is drawing sharp criticism from some who say that the sale of communications hardware and software to the country will enable government surveillance of citizens.
Obama Attends Prayer Breakfast With Sudanese Official Accused of Genocide
Human rights activists are assailing the Obama administration for the president’s appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday with the foreign minister of Sudan, a country whose government is accused of genocide.
South Sudan, Samantha Power, and the Failure of Liberal Internationalism
Last month in Juba, the capital of the relatively new nation of South Sudan, a small motorcade carrying the U.S. ambassador got entangled with a larger convoy ferrying a senior government official. Frustrated with the delay, a soldier in the South Sudanese convoy got out of his truck, fired two shots into the bulletproof glass of one of the embassy vehicles, and rejoined his own motorcade, which drove away.
So it goes in Juba. Since last December, when an coup allegedly perpetrated against the country’s Dinka president by his Nuer vice president led to Dinka troops going house-to-house in Juba, murdering men, women and children and trucking their bodies out to the bush, a civil war has been underway. The fighting calmed through much of the middle of 2014, but the dry season has arrived. Traditionally in South Sudan, negotiating is for the wet season, and the fighting renews at its conclusion.
From Sudanese Death Row to a Vatican Meeting with Pope Francis
The Sudanese woman that was put on death row for refusing to reject Christianity met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, NBC News reports.
