Treating the White Army as synonymous with South Sudan’s opposition serves a political purpose.
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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.
Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.
Pope Francis will be part of a peace mission to South Sudan, where thousands have been killed in ongoing violence.
The idea of what it means to be South Sudanese is not universally accepted in the young nation.
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.
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