Globalist: Dateline South Sudan: Grand Corruption’s Partners

South Sudan, a desperately poor country, pops up in global headlines only very intermittently. This was the case in the run-up to independence in 2011 and then in the civil war that has gripped the country since 2013.

But don’t make the mistake to believe that such a desperately poor country cannot be the terrain in which people can enrich themselves grotesquely.

In fact, if you wonder how local kleptocrats and their international partners — including a cast of Chinese-Malaysian oil giants and British tycoons to networks of traders from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda — can accumulate billions of dollars, look no further than South Sudan…

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