S. Sudan urges UN Council to remove it from sanctions list
South Sudan's former Vice President Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir shake hands as they make a peace deal in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on September 12, 2018. PHOTO | AFP
The South Sudan government has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to remove the sanctions against it.
The world’s security body placed South Sudan in the sanctions list in 2015 following reports of gross human rights violations in the conflict that ravaged the country.
