The United States extends the national emergency regarding South Sudan for another year

The United States Government announced this Tuesday the extension of the state of national emergency related to South Sudan for one more year, considering that the situation in the African country constitutes “an extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy” of his country. The measure, which will be published in the Federal Register, was in effect until April 3 of this year, when it turned ten years old. With this decision, the national emergency will be in force until April 2025. The US president, Joe Biden, has communicated his decision to the US Congress through a statement in which he mentions that the situation regarding South Sudan has been marked for “activities that threaten the peace, security or stability” of both that country and the region. Likewise, he has indicated that it includes “widespread violence and atrocities, human rights violations, recruitment and use of child soldiers, attacks on peacekeeping forces and obstruction of humanitarian operations.” The White House approved in April 2014, under the Presidency of Barack Obama, a declaration of emergency in South Sudan, which became independent from Sudan in 2011, after decades of conflict and a referendum involved. Just two years later the country was plunged into a bloody civil war that left thousands of dead.