South Sudan: South Sudan’s Neighbours Help Launder the Loot from Its Civil War

Dec 13, 2018 | Economist
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Since South Sudan’s independence in 2011 its leaders have pillaged the country. Nearly $7bn has gone missing since 2012, reckons Kenya’s Institute of Economic Affairs, a think-tank. Petrodollars vanish. Powerful wrongdoers are seldom punished. Partly because the state is easy to plunder, big men fight for control of it. South Sudan’s conflict, which started five years ago on December 15th, has caused perhaps half a million deaths, mostly by aggravating hunger and disease. Neighbours have hosted peace talks, paid for by donors. But they have done little to stop the laundering of the loot.