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South Sudan’s leaders engage in ‘systematic looting’ in poor nation: UN

South Sudan President Salva Kiir attends the inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam built along the Blue Nile in Guba, Ethiopia, September 9, 2025 [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]

United Nations investigators have accused South Sudanese authorities of plundering one of the world’s youngest and most impoverished nations’ wealth of billions of dollars in public funds stolen as the majority of the country deals with a deepening food crisis.

In a report made public on Tuesday, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says authorities allegedly used several schemes to divert significant amounts of money from public revenue since the country’s independence in 2011.

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