Panel of UN specialists suggests Security Council to maintain arms embargo on South Sudan due to unrest there as millions remain displaced and in need of humanitarian assistance
South Sudan has been wracked by instability since independence in 2011 and is still struggling to draw a line under the devastating civil war.
The Panel of Experts on South Sudan recommended, in a 77-page report to the UN Security Council, that the embargo be maintained because of the continuing unrest there. "Far from delivering transformational change to the predatory political system of South Sudan, the peace agreement has itself become a lucrative venue for elite power politics," said the experts on Saturday.The peace accord provided for a power-sharing arrangement in a government of national unity, set up in 2020 with Kiir as president and Machar as vice president.
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