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.

Can South Sudan be saved from self-destruction?

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After months of war, it took a brutal massacre followed by a revenge attack inside a UN compound to bring international attention back to a country racked by both violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis. South Sudan’s downward path is now being talked about in the context of the two great African disasters of a generation – the famine in Ethiopia and the genocide in Rwanda. The UN says “crimes against humanity” are being carried out, and the mass killing has been described as “a game-changer”. But what can be done to stem the violence and bring peace to the world’s youngest country? A rush of international diplomacy has begun.

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