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Browsing: oil spills in South Sudan
- More than $73 million USD was diverted since 2018
- Illicit diversion of State resources has severely undermined the economic rights of citizens
- Oil industry is also dominated by unaccountable oil consortia
Leaders of South Sudan are diverting staggering amounts of money and other wealth from the country’s public coffers and resources, undermining human rights and endangering security.
This is according to the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan which has found in its latest Conference Room more than $73 million USD was diverted since 2018, including transactions worth almost $39 million USD in a period of less than two months.
The Commission noted that this figure is only a fraction of the overall amount looted.
For instance, President Salva Kiir himself admitted as far back as 2012 that South Sudan’s ruling elites had diverted more than $4 billion USD.
The report also found that illicit diversion of State resources …