NZ troops to continue UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan

NZ troops to continue UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan

New Zealand military personnel will continue serving with a United Nations peacekeeping mission in a country that has endured years of civil war, political instability and humanitarian crises.

South Sudan at 15: how the political elite have found a way to profit from peace as well as war

Matthew Benson-Strohmayer, London School of Economics and Political Science South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa’s longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did not end the deeper struggles over power, revenue and coercion inside the newly independent state. South Sudan returned to war in 2013, watched a 2015 settlement collapse, and now l…