South Sudan President Salva Kiir is facing a tough task of reversing the economic downturn that has pushed more eight million people in the country into poverty as oil production, the nation’s chief revenue earner, tumbles due to internal and external factors, including depleted wells, flooding and military conflict in neighbouring Sudan.
Starved of donor funding for lack of political will to implement the 2018 peace agreement, Juba is trying to squeeze resources from an already overburdened oil sector.
