Treating the White Army as synonymous with South Sudan’s opposition serves a political purpose.
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Instability has allowed South Sudan’s elite to undermine the justice system and suppress efforts at reconciliation.
The recent outbreak of violence in South Sudan doesn’t appear to have been motivated by political directives from the country’s opposition.
Salva Kiir will almost certainly be remembered for sowing the divisions and corruption that will plague South Sudan for years to come.
Overlapping territorial claims continue to fuel conflict in Abyei, which is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.
The idea of what it means to be South Sudanese is not universally accepted in the young nation.
At the age of five, Akuch Kuol Anyieth climbed into a cattle truck to journey to the refugee camp known as Kakuma. This is her story.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has had a mixed bag of success and failure.
Today in South Sudan’s political climate, footballing success may wield more symbolic importance than anything else.
The world needs to take urgent steps to stop the threat of mass massacres in South Sudan with tough measures that must include direct legal and financial sanctions against the main protagonists.
If fighting continues and controversial policies are not reversed, it’s only a matter of time before full scale fighting breaks out again in South Sudan.
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Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik (OIIP)
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Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Visiting Professor University of Buckingham, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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Professor of Internatiional Relations, University of South Florida
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Professor in Global Security, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Head of Programmes, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University