No time to forget South Sudan, warns the UN

The war in Sudan, which has shown “how quickly hard-won gains towards peace can be wiped out”, must not distract attention from the risks facing South Sudan, the UN envoy to the country warned on Tuesday.

After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan plunged into a civil war that left almost 400,000 people dead and millions displaced between 2013 and 2018. A peace agreement signed in 2018 provided for the principle of…