South Sudan is the world’s newest country as they gained hard-fought independence in 2011. The team that worked together to gain this sovereignty soon became divided upon their success as president Salva Kiir accused his vice, Riek Machar, of planning to overthrow him. Machar then reacted by publicly calling for the overthrow of Kiir as he jailed several respected South Sudanese politicians for their supposed plan. In other words, a civil war emerged in December of 2015 and a clear ethnic divide between the Dinkas who widely support Kiir and the Nuers who mainly support Machar lead to mass ethnic killings with over 500 people dead as civilians are often targeted. Due to the political differences causing the civil war, South Sudan has passed
