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09.12.16
TIME: George Clooney Helps Reveal How South Sudan’s Civil War Has Enriched Leaders
South Sudanese leaders responsible for atrocities in the country’s violent civil war have amassed vast fortunes during the conflict, according to a new report by an initiative co-founded by actor George Clooney.
The Sentry‘s two-year investigation found that the families and top generals of conflict’s main opponents, President Salva Kiir Mayardit and deposed Vice President Riek Machar, stay in five-star hotels, own luxury cars and live in multi-million dollar mansions in Kenya, Uganda and Australia. According to the report, they reap the benefits of a system of nepotism “all while much of their country’s population suffers from the consequences of a brutal civil war, and in many places, experiences near-famine conditions.”
