Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to impose an arms embargo and additional sanctions on South Sudan to pressure the parties to end the civil war in the world's newest nation — but Russia and China remain opposed. There were high hopes that South Sudan would have peace and stability after its independence from neighboring Sudan in 2011. Haley said the beneficiary of the division in the Security Council is South Sudan's government. "So if you want them to continue to harass the people of South Sudan, if you want to continue to see starvation in South Sudan, doing nothing is exactly what you need to keep doing," she told council members. "And we call on the AU and U.N. envoys to put forward an operational plan of active engagement for peace in South Sudan," she said.

Source: ABC News April 25, 2017 17:57 UTC