South Sudan: ‘One of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world’, says UN (Stéphanie Thomson, WEF)

The news was greeted with jubilation: after decades of conflict in Sudan between the Arab-dominated north and the predominantly Christian, black south, South Sudan had won independence. An overwhelming majority – over 98% – of South Sudanese supported the move, hoping it would put an end to Africa’s longest civil war.

http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/south-sudan-one-of-the-most-horrendous-human-rights-situations-in-the-world-says-un