The US ambassador to the UN nikki Haley is in South Sudan to meet the president in hopes of finding a resolution to their civil
War she told a group of reporters that she was mad that the international community has let the conflict go on for so long
South Sudan spiraled into civil war in 2013 after a dispute between President Salva Kiir and a former deputy
nearly
350,000 refugees have flooded into gam Bela almost 90 percent are women and children
This is an international crisis. This is not just a Ethiopia's problem
This is an international crisis, and when you look at the thousands of people here
and you see that they're supposed to have won Helen Clements for 10,000 people and there's
86,000 people in one clinic it's wrong
I mean, they're they're trying to make ends meet by you know working off of food shortages
But at some point you have to look and say no one deserves to live like this
Heba Morgan has more from the capital Juba
as of yet
Nikki Haley is the highest US official to visit South Sudan from the Trump administration
And this visit comes after it seems like the u.s.
Is taking a tougher stance on South Sudan in?
September the US government sanctioned two government officials and one former
chief of staff of the in the country saying that they are derailing the peace process and
hindering peace in South Sudan
Now nikki Haley made it very clear that she's going to focus on
humanitarian access and protection for aid workers in the country more than 82 have already been killed in this conflict and
More than it doesn't have disappeared or have been abducted. She also said that she's trying to make sure that the aid money
That is being spent is spent wisely. She's very concerned about how aid workers are spending their money?
She's met with some UN agencies
And she's going to talk to people in the protection of civilian camps and the UN
protection camps for for civilians where people have been displaced for more than four years to see how the
Access is and how the services are being delivered now us let us remember that the u.s.. Is the biggest aid donor in South Sudan
Delivering more than 700 million dollars per year to the aid community
To we're to provide assistance to the people of South Sudan and we're talking about a population
of more than six million that heavily rely on aid to survive so her visit is quite significant and
So her visit is quite significant and her talk to the president
He talks with the UN organizations her talk with the people in the displacement camps
Will decide how the US policy in South Sudan will move forward from there?
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