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UN extends arms embargo on South Sudan
South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan Tuesday, May 16, 2023.

THE United Nations security council extended an arms embargo on South Sudan on Tuesday over protests from the world’s newest nation.

Russia, China and the council’s three African nations all abstained in the vote and voiced their sympathy for the sanctions to be lifted.

The 10-0 vote on the United States-drafted resolution was the same as the vote on the previous sanctions resolution adopted last May.

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