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"Mr President, the latest reports from the war zone in the Nuba mountains are downright depressing. The area has virtually been cut off from the outside world for months now, held in a stranglehold of the Sudanese armed forces. Enduring great hardship, the civilian population is trying to survive in mountain caves. Meanwhile, there are also large numbers of Nuba refugees at the Juba reception centre in South Sudan. The image of this fledgling state is just as bleak; just read the internal report by the World Bank. Certainly, it talks very frankly about an extraordinary situation.
Why, too, has the independent South Sudan been such a huge disappointment to its international friends and financial supporters in this respect? The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting: the irresponsible behaviour of the totally incompetent state leadership under President Salva Kiir. The complete shutdown of oil production since January 2012 (which had accounted for 98% of government revenue), in conjunction with nepotism and widespread corruption, backs up this heart-breaking conclusion. Already, approximately half of the South Sudanese live below the poverty line and the forecast for 2013 is for an increase to as much as 83%.
The question I would like to put to the European Union, and thus also to my own Dutch Government, who will soon visit the region, is this: are his European supporters finally going to send a clear warning to President Salva Kiir? Because, we need to ask what has happened to all of that money?"@en1
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