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UN Security Council imposes arms embargo on South Sudan
South Sudan has been at war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused then-deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
- AlJazeera
The United Nations Security Council has imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan, almost five years after a ruinous civil war in the country started.
A United States-drafted resolution won the minimum nine votes needed, while six member states abstained, wary of voting for the measure amid regional attempts to revitalise the South Sudan peace…
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the adoption of the…