South Sudan: UN report denounces ‘systematic’ government corruption amid food crisis

The United Nations on Tuesday blamed systemic government corruption in South Sudan for the human rights crisis plaguing the country. 

In a new report, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan accused the country’s political elites of diverting public revenues from oil and other sources for their own benefits, at the cost of the country’s 11 million people.

The chairperson of the commission, Yasmin Sooka, said “corruption is…