SUDAN ||| The consequences of South Sudan’s ongoing conflict are significant for US interests

If Trump does nothing, 50% of South Sudan’s population could soon be gone Payton Knopf

The consequences of South Sudan’s ongoing conflict are significant for US interests. Peace can be an early win for the Trump Administration 

rimes against humanity. Mass atrocities. Mass displacement. While these terms accurately describe the conflict in Syria, they are equally applicable to South Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Left to its present trajectory of displacement and famine, roughly half of South Sudan’s population will have died of starvation or fled the country by the war’s fourth anniversary in December – an occurrence nearly unprecedented in modern history.

In a study conducted by the South Sudan Law Society using the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, 41% of South Sudanese exhibited symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rates comparable to those of post-genocide Rwanda and post-genocide Cambodia. That was two years ago.

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