Prominent South Sudanese economist and government critic Peter Biar Ajak said Friday that he had sought asylum in the United States, accusing President Salva Kiir of trying to have him killed, a charge Juba denied. PeterBiarAjak SalvaKiir
Biar, a 35-year-old Harvard-educated economist who has worked for the World Bank, has been outspoken in his criticism of the country’s leadership and its handling of a civil war that left nearly 400,000 dead.
On Friday he posted a photo of himself and his family arriving in the US, thanking President Donald Trump for giving them refuge “after I fled a death squad sent by … President Salva Kiir.”“Biar was supposed to say this when he was here… he was released by the government,” foreign ministry spokesman Raphael Nhial Kulang told AFP.One of Biar’s co-accused, businessman Kerbino Wol, who was also pardoned, launched a rebellion and was killed by government forces last month.
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