Actor and activist is trying to stop the violence and profiteering in the world’s newest nation. Watch the video on Fox News.

Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has been linked to the ongoing money laundering by corrupt government officials in South Sudan, including senior military leaders sanctioned by the United Nations in the wake of the civil war which erupted in December 2013. The US-based The Sentry organization in its report released in Washington after a two-year investigation […]

“South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, with an age old problem: massive corruption,” Chris Wallace said on Fox News Sunday. The president of the new nation—established in 2011—is Salva Kiir Mayardit. Kiir and his surrogates are battling with former vice president Riek Machar Teny over the nation’s wealth. Click here to read the full article.

On Monday, September 12, The Sentry, an organisation set up by US actor George Clooney and rights activist John Prendergast, published a report detailing the extent of corruption by South Sudan’s political elite. President Salva Kiir’s supporters were quick to denounce the allegations as “rubbish”, but the protestations will fall on deaf ears: few doubt […]

South Sudan’s president on Saturday condemned a human rights group report that alleges he and other top members of the government have profited from the country’s three-year civil war that has killed thousands of citizens. The group, The Sentry, which was co-founded by actor George Clooney, accused South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir of enriching himself […]

On the night of February 17, a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan, sheltering about 47,000 displaced persons, was engulfed in violence that left at least 30 people dead and much of the camp in ashes. Of the deaths, almost half were women and children. Around the same time, 200 kilometres away in Juba, […]

Fighting that broke out in the capital, Juba, in July is responsible for the latest surge in those fleeing, it says. More than 1.6 million people are also displaced within South Sudan, meaning about 20% of the population have been made homeless since December 2013. A fragile peace deal signed last year is on the […]

Der Bürgerkrieg im Südsudan ist an Grausamkeit kaum zu überbieten: Menschen werden in Frachtcontainer gesperrt und zum Sterben in die sengende Sonne gestellt. Plünderungen, Vergewaltigungen und Vernichtung von Wohnhäusern sind Mittel des Krieges. Und für 5,2 Millionen Menschen – also für jeden zweiten Südsudanesen – ist Hunger eine lebensbedrohliche Gefahr, warnt die Uno. Click here15 to […]

A high profile report detailing a network of alleged corruption in South Sudan emerged earlier this week, accusing South Sudanese senior hierarchy of profiteering from the civil war. The 66-page report was released by Sentry, an investigative organisation founded by the US actor George Clooney and the rights activist John Prendergast. It presented evidence of […]

South Sudan’s authorities have shut down a prominent newspaper, the Nation Mirror, the editor said Wednesday, after it published details of a report released by a U.S.-based group alleging misuse of state funds by the nation’s leaders. The authorities did not give a reason for closing the paper, which prints about 2,500 copies daily and […]

A South Sudan newspaper says the government ordered its shutdown the day it published a front-page story on a U.S.-based watchdog group’s investigation into corruption by top officials. An editor of The Nation Mirror, Aurelius Simon Choiee, said Wednesday that the National Security Service did not give a reason for the shutdown. The nationwide publication […]

FCPA Today reported Wednesday that George Clooney’s anti-corruption initiative called The Sentry released a report about war profiteering and kleptocracy in South Sudan. Click here to read the full article.

A former South Sudanese army general has been thrown into the spotlight after it was revealed he paid $1.5m for a home in Melbourne’s south-east despite earning just A$60,000 a year. The revelation comes in the first report released by the Sentry, an investigative organisation founded by the US actor George Clooney and the rights […]

A two-year undercover investigation by The Sentry Group, founded by Clooney and fellow activist John Prendergast, found President Salva Kiir, former vice-president Riek Machar and military generals made fortunes while being paid modest government salaries. “They’re stealing the money to fund their militias to attack and kill one another,” Clooney said. “The evidence is thorough, […]

The two-year multinational probe was conducted by, The Sentry, an independent monitoring group co-founded by Clooney, and US author and peace activist John Prendergast. Investigators tracked social media accounts, legal records, financial statements and shipping documents.   Click here to read the full article.

A two-year undercover probe conducted around the globe by investigators drawn from the ranks of the FBI and the US departments of state and treasury found “massive criminal behaviour by the president of South Sudan and by his opposition, the ousted vice president of South Sudan, and their generals,” Clooney told a news conference in […]

South Sudan gained its independence five years ago with much fanfare. It was hailed as the world’s newest nation with an incredible amount of optimism. But a bitter rivalry between the president Salva Kiir, and his former deputy Riek Machar resulted in civil war. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions more […]

Getting Americans to care about human-rights atrocities half-a-world away is hard. Getting them fired up about confronting the corruption that fuels those slaughters is an order of magnitude harder. But that’s what actor George Clooney and human-rights activist John Prendergast are aiming to do with their new project, The Sentry. “You can’t shame war criminals,” explains […]

Hollywood actor and global activist George Clooney unveiled findings today of a two-year undercover investigation that he said paints a disturbing picture of war profiteering carried out by South Sudan‘s top government leaders. “This morning we’re prepared to give evidence of massive criminal behavior by the president of South Sudan and by his opposition, the […]

Cause: An investigative report alleging that South Sudanese leaders and their families used their positions to amass sprawling fortunes to support luxury lifestyles that would make a Kardashian jealous. The report also condemns (but doesn’t identify) the bankers, real estate agents and lawyers complicit in the alleged profiteering. Celeb(s): Actor-vist George Clooney, who co-founded the Sentry, […]