By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorReports of mass killings and horrific rampages by government forces in South Sudan are emerging from the troubled country with a regularity that should attract far more attention. On Thursday, Britain’s International Development minister Priti Patel said the killings should be regarded as ethnic cleansing which amount to genocide. Amid all this, there has been a string of denials and evasions by South Sudanese officials and deafening silence from regional leaders. It cannot stand that in this day and age, government troops should be committing ethnic cleansing with impunity. Pressure should be applied on President Salva Kiir, who has done an exceptionally poor job in managing that country, including by regional leaders from Kenya and Uganda who have leverage with authorities in Juba.

Source: Daily Nation April 15, 2017 17:15 UTC