On Monday 12 December, the EU expressed deep concern at the escalation of violence and atrocities in South Sudan, which are often based on ethnic criteria, and at the humanitarian distress of some six million people in the youngest nation in the world – which is on a cliff edge and threatened with genocide, according to the UN.
In its conclusions adopted without debate on the side lines of the foreign affairs ministers' meeting in Brussels, the Council of the EU calls on South Sudan's...