By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
An internal Obama administration squabble stalls U.N. efforts to ban weapons shipments to South Sudan. Foreign allies and even some top U.S. officials have for months sought to slap an arms embargo on South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his security forces, who are suspected of killing thousands of civilians in the country’s civil war. But critics accuse National Security Advisor Susan Rice of blocking a weapons ban out of fear it would hobble Kiir’s ability to defeat an equally brutal insurgency. An exclusive report by FP’s Colum Lynch: “The slow pace of American …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
