AFP: US calls for crackdown on S. Sudan war money invested in Kenya

The United States urged Kenya on Wednesday to investigate properties and assets owned by elite families from South Sudan, including its president and his rival, who have enriched themselves in their country’s civil war raging since 2013. Sigal Mandelker, the US Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence on a tour of East Africa, said South Sudanese, some of them on a sanctions list, have continued to invest illicit money in Kenya’s real estate market…

…The political and military elite in South Sudan has been accused of corruption in hard-hitting reports by the US foundation The Sentry, co-founded by actor George Clooney.

A Sentry report points especially to President Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar, charging them with getting rich in the civil war by fighting to control the country’s oil and other abundant natural resources…

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