U.S. Imposes Arms Ban on South Sudan as Civil War Grinds On

U.S. Imposes Arms Ban on South Sudan as Civil War Grinds On
Uganda, which sent troops to fight on the side of the government of South Sudan in the early stages of the war, is still feeding the conflict with weapons, said Richard Downie, deputy director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies, who visited the region in January.
Heather Nauert, the State Department’s spokeswoman, said the administration would soon resume a push begun under
President Barack Obama for the United Nations Security Council to impose a global arms ban against South Sudan.
Some top officials close to Mr. Kiir have been placed under sanctions by the United States,
and on Monday the African Union expressed support for imposing sanctions on leaders who are violating cease-fires in South Sudan.
Neither Ms. Thomas-Greenfield nor Mr. Downie believed the United Nations would vote to impose
an arms embargo, since Russia and China tend to oppose such efforts as meddlesome.
Linda said that I was pleased to see the administration move in this direction, and I think Nikki Haley has led that movement,
When civil war erupted there in 2013 after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused his former deputy,
Riek Machar, an ethnic Neur, of fomenting a coup, the United States initially sided with Mr. Kiir.