South Sudan: Why Peace Remains Elusive
Publisher: New African
Author(s): Baffour Ankomah
Date: 2014
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: South Sudan, Sudan
From the outside, the conflict in South Sudan appears very much a local issue but the fighting itself has petered out into a kind of war of attrition, affecting three of the country’s 10 states. The rest of the country is absolutely peaceful. From the inside, however, at least from the vantage position of the government in Juba, one sees the hands of powerful outside forces hiding behind the scenes and stoking the fires, thereby making it not a local issue at all. Our editor, Baffour Ankomah, just back from South Sudan’s capital, Juba, reports.