Still war in South Sudan

(To Giampiero Venturi)
29/06/16

South Sudan refrains from celebrating the 5 anniversary of its planned independence for 9 in July.

The youngest of the African States, born of a secession from the Arab Sudan of Khartoum, is in catastrophic conditions. The humanitarian crisis that revolves around alarming economic data (90% devaluation of the national currency, 300% inflation, more than a billion dollars of deficit) is added to the return of the civil war.

After the peace agreement of August of 2015 which saw the agreement between President Salva Kiir and the rebel leader Riek Machar (who became Kiir's vice-president), in the north the clashes between government forces and tribal militias resume. In Wau, 700 km from the capital Juba, there would be dozens dead in bloody clashes. 

(photo: Armée du Sud Soudan