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The US government revoked all visas granted to South Sudanese passport holders over the African country’s apparent unwillingness to receive deported citizens.
The visa revocations can be reviewed “when South Sudan is in full cooperation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, but efforts will be put in place to prevent South Sudanese passport holders from receiving any new visas or entering the US.
The move comes as tensions rise in South Sudan between President Salva Kiir and his former partners in a power-sharing deal. The United Nations has warned that the country is on the brink of civil war as a result of the tensions.
