The peace The loans have been used to pay the salaries of security agreement and its SSR process have not improved the lives of the young women services allied to Kiir’s regime rather than the opposition and men of South Sudan.1 forces that compose part of the national army. [...] The majority of the South Sudanese pop- (primarily oil, but also timber and gold) Despite these crises, and the govern- ulation purchases the materials they and the manipulation of the humanitarian ment’s failure to implement the peace need to live from markets that are deeply sector. [...] Backroom empires of the state’s budget was used to pay The government had awarded USD 3 wages, and 70 per cent of the military’s billion to a series of companies for the By 2008, only three years after the sign- budget was spent on salaries (Ministry of purchase and storage of grain (including ing of the CPA, the World Bank’s first Finance and Economic Planning, 2011). [...] Pay Day Loans and Backroom Empires 7 Jur Wh N t belJe el- N ER WES T The partial withdrawal of the state and military class from oil revenues that Pay day loans from the provision of wages outside the are used by Juba, commanders and sol- national capital and the concentration diers alike are encouraged to become Oil is the single largest contributor to of capital in Juba to the detriment of the e. [...] These the Ruweng Administrative Area and for the ferocity of the conflict in Upper attacks often use dozens of motorbikes Unity state, and both administrations Nile in September–December 2022 and rapidly remove the looted items are competing for Sudanese and South was that control of the port of Tonga from the area of the attack.
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