AFRICA: OBAMA SEEKS AUGUST DEADLINE FOR END TO SOUTH SUDAN WAR

  Pres. [Barack Obama] outlined the options at a meeting Monday in Addis Ababa with leaders of Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, the chair of the African Union and the foreign minister of Sudan. "Liberating" South Sudan, with support from the U.S., Britain and Norway, was supposed to be the high po...

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LanguageEnglish
Published New York Global Information Network 28.07.2015
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Summary:  Pres. [Barack Obama] outlined the options at a meeting Monday in Addis Ababa with leaders of Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, the chair of the African Union and the foreign minister of Sudan. "Liberating" South Sudan, with support from the U.S., Britain and Norway, was supposed to be the high point of Obama's Africa policy. Four years after independence, the nation is a humanitarian disaster. In a press briefing, a senior administration official told reporters that "venal leaders" had squandered a huge opportunity which the international community had helped them win. "So we can't undo this for them," he said, referring to the crisis. "They've got to fix this (themselves)." Meanwhile, rebel spokesman James Gatdet welcomed Obama's comments, saying "peace is possible". But a spokesman for South Sudan rejected the plan and accused the international community of "jeopardizing the chances of the people of South Sudan."