Op-Ed / South Sudan / 07.15.15

CNN Op-ed: Sanctions Threats Not Enough in South Sudan

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by George Clooney, John Prendergast and Akshaya Kumar

The scale of the crisis facing South Sudan is hard to comprehend — 2 million people have been displaced as the country has tumbled back into a greed-driven war that has also left almost half the population without enough food to eat.

To stop the death spiral, the United States and South Sudan’s neighbors must urgently fashion a new approach to peacemaking that creates a more effective peace process, one with serious, biting consequences for those South Sudanese government and rebel leaders who continue to fan the flames of war and who are completely insulated from the suffering of their people.

With this in mind, President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya and Ethiopia next month provides a golden opportunity to help rescue one of the central legacies of his administration in Africa: American support for the creation of the world’s newest state.

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