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Nichola Mandil
BBC News, Juba
A US district court has charged a prominent South Sudanese Sudan's military-led government has said it will allow some humanitarian aid to be delivered via Chad and South Sudan.
activist, Peter Biar Ajak, with conspiring to purchase and illegally export It had banned deliveries via Chad after accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of using aid convoys to supply weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The UAE has denied doing so.
weapons worth millions of dollars. Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Sudan, said the move was a "welcome step" and would help reach people in "dire need of life saving assistance".
He was charged alongside his compatriot Abraham Chol Keech. Ms Salami said the government had agreed to open airport routes for humanitarian aid in Fasher, Kadugli and El Obeid.
They are accused of colluding to buy weapons such as automatic More than 10 months of conflict between rival military forces has left thousands dead and about eight million displaced.
rifles, grenade launchers, Stinger missile systems, hand grenades and other The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said the war in Sudan could trigger the world's largest hunger crisis if the fighting does not stop.
export-controlled items from the US to South Sudan. More stories on Sudan:
They have not commented on the allegations. What is going on in Sudan? A simple guide
The sale of weapons to South Sudan is prohibited by two US laws. Sudan conflict: 'I saw bodies dumped in Darfur mass grave'
South Sudan has also been subject to an arms embargo by the UN Security
Council that was initially imposed in 2018 and has been renewed several times since
then.
The court said that as part of the illegal scheme to smuggle the
weapons, the accused agreed to a $4m (£3.5m) contract worth of weapons and
related items.
They also requested a “fake contract” in the same amount for consulting
services and items such as communications equipment for use in refugee camps, a
statement by the US Justice Department said.
Mr Ajak, a Harvard fellow and a vocal critic of President Salva
Kiir’s government, was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to two years in prison.
He was pardoned by the president in January 2020.
South Sudan’s foreign affairs ministry has not yet commented on the arrest
of the two.
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