Visa Tensions: South Sudan Reacts to US Sanction Over Entry Denial

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7/4/2025

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00:00The government deeply regrets that despite this history of collaboration and partnership,

00:07South Sudan now faces a broad revocation of visas based on an isolated incident involving

00:14misrepresentation by an individual who is not a South Sudanese national.

00:20Comprehensive verification processes confirm that this individual is a national of the

00:26Democratic Republic of Congo, named Makula Kintu.

00:32In accordance with our immigration protocols, he was not admitted and was subsequently returned

00:39to the sending country for further processing.

00:46Both Juba and Washington need to provide more information about this particular person,

00:50so this person's problem that led to the political deterioration between Juba and Washington

00:55is properly explained because we believe there's a lot of secrets behind this particular

01:00person in terms of his deportation and rejection or non-acceptance for him to be deported to

01:06South Sudan by South Sudanese governments.

01:12And I think that also goes together with the frustration of U.S. government on the political

01:15development of the country where our leaders are unable to believe her, and we have seen

01:19issues of election, U.S. is disappointed, issues of violations of arms embargo, U.S.

01:24is disappointed, and we have seen U.S. disappointed in terms of protection of humanitarian workers

01:29including human rights activists who are at risk, so I think all these have created a

01:34pressure that have mounted through this element of deportation of U.S. to make this decision

01:39and we seek more clarity from Washington and from Juba.

01:51When we heard this statement, all of us were shocked because many of South Sudanese, they

01:56have their families in America, also some of them they are here in South Sudan, so they

02:01used to go and come back.

02:03So if there's an issue like this, I think that that is going to affect many people in

02:08South Sudan.

02:09As you know, we have been in long and in the war for 21 years, and then many of our brothers

02:19has been journey to America, and then America is the one who has been take them, the one

02:25who took them before to America, so they are citizen, they are resident in America for

02:30long years.

02:31So that is why when we get our independence, we say thank you very much America, now our

02:36citizen let them come and they see their villages, they start to come back and go back, come

02:40back and go back, and then the same time, most of them they have this dual passport.

02:47So they have been moving between South Sudan and America.

02:50So if they are stopped, that they are not going to be given a visa for them, this mean

02:55that these children who are in America, their fathers will remain here in South Sudan, or

03:00some fathers, their children, they will remain in South Sudan, then the fathers will be in

03:04America, so I think that is going to affect the system of the community in South Sudan.

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