EU to Impose Sanctions on South Sudan Military Officials

The European Union (EU) is joining the United States and imposing sanctions on officials in South Sudan who it says have "major responsibility for the violence in the country," a top EU official said Thursday. "The EU will be imposing targeted sanctions on two military leaders," Nick Westcott, the managing director for Africa of the EU's diplomatic corps, told South Sudan in Focus by phone from Brussels. "The sanctions comprise a visa ban to prevent them...

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