Bloomberg View: Saving South Sudan From Its Founding Fathers

Five years after gaining its independence, South Sudan is a basket case. It is wracked by civil war. Its leaders have looted the treasury. Many of its people are on the brink of starvation.

Now some of the most high-profile champions of the young nation’s independence are calling on the U.S. government and international banks to treat its leaders the same way Washington treats terror networks and drug cartels.

The recommendation is found in a devastating report released today from the Sentry, a new organization founded by the actor George Clooney and a human rights advocate, John Prendergast, to track the illicit financing of African wars.

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