South Sudan’s neighbors threaten to step in to end fighting Written by Dr. Peter Kopling Joseph Ugandan President Museveni (right) shakes hands with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (left)) in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo credit: AFP December 29, 2013[] — East African leaders on Friday gave South Sudan’s warring factions four days to lay down…
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How the U.S Triumph in South Sudan came Undone
The White House bet on guerrilla fighters changing their warring ways. Turns out it was a bad bet. By COLUM LYNCH In August, 2009, the South Sudanese politician and former guerrilla fighter Riek Machar invited President Barack Obama’s envoy, Scott Gration, over for a few bottles of White Bull Lager on his patio overlooking the…
Save South Sudan From Itself Written by ANDREW S. NATSIOS COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — South Sudan faces its most severe crisis yet. Born by referendum in 2011, after a lengthy war with Sudan that killed 2.5 million people, the young country is now in the throes of a political crisis that is devolving into a tribal conflict. After…
