Calls for U.S. to reconsider sanctions on the world’s youngest nation intensifies with the leader of the International Youth for Africa (IYA) coming on board asking the United States government to reconsider the recent sanctions it imposed on South Sudanese.
According to IYA’s executive director, Ter Manyang Gatwech, the move will be helpful in ending the conflict in the war-torn nation. Gatwech, emphasized that sanctions imposed on South Sudan and certain individuals will not stop the on-going war from further escalating.
The US administration has imposed sanctions on two senior members of South Sudan government, including the former army chief of staff.
The sanctions, the US Treasury Department said, involves freezing all assets belonging to those South Sudanese officials implicated.
Gatwech, however, said the sanctions imposed will never improve the conflict situation in the war-torn nation, where tens thousands of people have been killed and over two million displaced from homes.
South Sudan’s civil war, now in its four-year. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than two million people displaced.
