Politics in these African countries is heavily influenced by the U.S.

South Sudan

Decades of civil war leading to South Sudan’s sovereignty and recent violence in the new country has left the state fragile.

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The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, remarked last year that she stressed the U.S. administration’s increasingly unsteady support for [President Salva Kiir;s] regime to the government in South Sudan.

“The United States is both generous and patient, but we are not without our limits,” she said. “Entire generations are being lost in South Sudan. Families are being destroyed. We cannot and will not look away.”

Her pressure proved potent. After her conversation with Kiir last week, the president promised “free, unimpeded and unhindered movement” for humanitarian efforts in the country.