*South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir Sudanese and President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan in Khartoum
The conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan
are increasingly merged. Halting drift toward a Uganda-Sudan proxy war on the
Sudan-South Sudan border
requires better coordination by regional organisations and more engagement by
influential outside powers, notably China
and the U.S. ,
including via the UN Security Council. A UN-imposed arms embargo, improved
border monitoring, and a UN panel of experts mandated to study the funding of
South Sudan’s war are needed.