PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd – South Sudan

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

A bad smell is wafting out of the oil wells of South Sudan

Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, is not a very decisive man. Back in June 2012, President Kiir ‘discovered’ (that’s the word used by his office) that 75 senior government officials had stolen more than US $ 4 billion from State coffers. This was an astonishing 40% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. Considering South Sudan had, by then, been in existence for barely a year, the revelation was not only astonishing. How those officials could steal so much, in such a short time, when the country was essentially the poorest on earth was mind-boggling.

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