South Sudan is an experiment that flopped – “the light that failed”, to co-opt the title of Rudyard Kipling’s first novel, which was partly set in Sudan. Machar wanted Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s president and a leader of the Dinka people, to stand down. Hopes that South Sudan’s oil and mineral wealth would bring prosperity for all were dashed by mismanagement and greed. A woman scoops up fallen grain after an aerial food drop by the World Food Programme in Kandak, South Sudan. The US and Israel, South Sudan’s most ardent backers in 2011, are now in bed with its old enemy in the north.

Source: The Guardian July 11, 2021 05:15 UTC