{"id":42962,"date":"2026-05-20T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=42962"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:01:35","slug":"south-sudan-is-collapsing-thanks-to-corruption-over-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/south-sudan-is-collapsing-thanks-to-corruption-over-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Is Collapsing Thanks to Corruption Over Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <span class=\"vpe_-video-container\"            style=\"max-height: 360px\"    >          <iframe class=\"vpe_-video-player\"    allowfullscreen      src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qi37th_N3Ck?autoplay=0&amp;rel=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3\"  ><\/iframe>    <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Six years after winning its independence, South Sudan is already on the brink of collapse. Despite its vast oil reserves and more than $10 Billion in aid from the United States, the country has been driven into famine and a devastating ethnic war. <\/p>\n<p>VICE&#039;s Isobel Yeung explores how corruption at the top is threatening to tear the world&#039;s newest country apart<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to VICE News here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/Subscribe-to-VICE-News<\/p>\n<p>Check out VICE News for more: http:\/\/vicenews.com<\/p>\n<p>Follow VICE News here:<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vicenews<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/vicenews<br \/>\nTumblr: http:\/\/vicenews.tumblr.com\/<br \/>\nInstagram: http:\/\/instagram.com\/vicenews<br \/>\nMore videos from the VICE network: https:\/\/www.fb.com\/vicevideo<\/p>\n<p>#VICEonHBO<\/p>\n<div class=\"vpe_-video-url\">\n<p><iframe title=\"South Sudan Is Collapsing Thanks to Corruption Over Oil\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qi37th_N3Ck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years after winning its independence, South Sudan is already on the brink of collapse&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1199,"featured_media":42964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780,681],"tags":[1151,1156,1163,1155,1152,1159,1149,1150,1154,1053,1160,1157,933,1164,1161,1153,1052,1148,1145,1146,1162,1165,1147,1158],"class_list":["post-42962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southsudan","category-videos","tag-crude-reality","tag-drought","tag-ethnic-nuer","tag-health-south-sudan","tag-healthcare-south-sudan","tag-international-news","tag-isobel-yeung","tag-isobel-yeung-vice","tag-malnutrition-kids","tag-news","tag-oil-black-market","tag-oil-reserves-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-civil-war","tag-south-sudan-economy","tag-south-sudan-hospital","tag-vice-news","tag-vice-news-2019","tag-vice-news-tonight","tag-vice-on-hbo","tag-vice-on-hbo-youtube","tag-vice-south-sudan","tag-vice-video","tag-war-for-independance-south-sudan","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42963,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42962\/revisions\/42963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}