U.S. Warning to South Sudan

South Sudan is in desperate need of help and the civil war is not getting any better. Mark Green, the administrator for the Agency for International Development, has expressed that the United States policy towards South Sudan will be reevaluated. The article stated that Green did not elaborate on what he consequences of this review could be, but Green did say that "we (the U.S) support the people of South Sudan" (Carol Morello, The Washington Post). Since the outbreak of civil war between the government and opposition forces, civilians have suffered the most.

Millions of citizens have been displaced and are extremely food insecure. Soldiers from all sides loot homes and villages and make it extremely difficult for any humanitarian aid to reach the Sudanese people. According to the article, the U.S. has given South Sudan and it's neighbors "almost $730 million" (Carol Morello, The Washington Post) this year alone. Despite of that, "Africa's worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide" (Carol Morello, The Washington Post) persists with no end in sight.








Link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/us-warns-south-sudan-continued-chaos-is-not-acceptable-aid-may-be-pulled/2017/09/02/a9b228bd-312f-4aed-8f4c-e3129442d568_story.html?utm_term=.9514e37c364b