US deportations cast spotlight on South Sudan’s deepening political crisis

UN peacekeepers patrol the street in South Sudan. It has warned the country was on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict. Photograph: Brian Inganga/AP

An attempt by the US to deport South Asian migrants to South Sudan has cast a spotlight on the world’s youngest country, which is experiencing a renewed outbreak of the political tensions that have plagued it over the years.

On Wednesday, a US federal judge said the deportation of migrants from the US to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated a court order requiring that any people being deported to a third country should receive due process.