US, UK to blame for deteriorating situation in South Sudan: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with Lawrence Freeman, an African affairs expert from Baltimore, to discuss the current desperate situation for many South Sudan civilians.
Freeman noted that the deteriorating humanitarian situation in South Sudan amid persistent fighting is a result of US and British policies towards the African country.
“This was nurtured very much by the United States and by Great Britain. They wanted a separate South Sudan. They wanted to use it as a vehicle to overthrow Khartoum’s President [Omar] Bashir,” he said on Thursday.
He further stressed, “Susan Rice, US National Security Advisor, President [Barack] Obama and others in Washington cynically manipulated military South Sudan independence.”
The American analyst also said that now the direct result of such interventionist policies is that thousands of people are dying of hunger in the northeastern African country.
South Sudan's NGO Forum said in a statement on Thursday that violence against civilians is continuing with killings, rapes and abductions despite a peace agreement between the warring factions.
"This conflict is driving up the cost of delivering assistance and risking the lives of thousands of people in need," it said.
The situation for civilians is "desperate and getting worse" as fighting spreads to another state, Western Equatoria, according to the NGO Forum.
South Sudan's warring factions signed a peace deal in August, but they have since been trading accusations over repeated violations of the truce, especially in the contested states of Unity and Upper Nile.
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