US slaps arms embargo on South Sudan, urges UN to do the same as civil war rages on.
The United States is also calling on South Sudan’s neighbors to implement similar arms restrictions and urging the U.N. Security Council to support a global embargo on the country. “The message must be clear – the United States, the region and the international community will not stand idly by as innocent South Sudanese civilians are murdered,” the statement said.
South Sudan’s leaders aren’t just failing the country, “they are betraying them,” Haley said.
U.S. Raises Pressure on South Sudan’s Kiir, Bans Export of Arms, Defense Services
Countries currently on the ITAR blacklist include Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela.
“We need to act against those who, with impunity, are continuing to massacre their peaceful populations,” the head of the African Union commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, told reporters at the AU Summit held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.