Web of deceit keeping South Sudan war alive

Newly released child soldiers in Yambio, South Sudan, in February last year, under a programme to help reintegrate them into society. PHOTO | AFP

An array of international profiteers from the US, the UK, Asia, and Africa have been taking advantage of the war in South Sudan to amass wealth at the expense of the suffering masses.

These profiteers are not only cutting multimillion-dollar deals with top South Sudan government officials and their families, but have engineered massacres and displacement to enable them explore for oil.