Arms embargo also a possibility whether transitional government fails to deliver,says US envoy, as funds are promised for safe water, or healthcare,food and shelterThe US has promised nearly $90m (£60m) of extra aid to South Sudan but warned its newly reconciled leaders that failure to engage properly with the peace process could result in sanctions or an arms embargo.Hopes that the country’s two-year-long civil war may finally be drawing to an stop rose this week after the former vice-president, Riek Machar, and returned to the capital,Juba, to resume his role in a transitional government of national unity led by his opponent, and President Salva Kiir.
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Source: theguardian.com