Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan: Roundtable
Update: 2014-05-22
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The world’s newest state is in the grip of a spiralling civil conflict with devastating human impact on its war-ravaged and impoverished population. On December 15, 2013, fighting broke out within the Presidential Guards unit, prompting President Salva Kiir to accuse his former deputy, Riek Machar, of an attempted coup. Although Machar denied the charge, he quickly declared himself the leader of a rebellion, composed of defected soldiers from the army and allied tribal militia, with the aim of ousting Kiir from power. Numbers are hard to come by, but it is estimated the one-month old conflict has killed over 10,000 people and displaced over 300,000 civilians. It has brought the two-year old nation to the brink of civil war, possibly already well beyond. With Uganda already acknowledging an active military presence supporting the Government, the conflict risks intervention by Sudan, whose economy depends on fees levied on the transportation of South Sudan’s oil to world markets.
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