On June 7, a Hong Kong-based cargo ship called the Feng Huang Song docked in the port of Mombasa, Kenya. On board were $38 million worth of arms produced by China’s state-owned weapons manufacturer, NORINCO — thousands of assault rifles, grenade launchers, anti-tank RPG rounds, and many millions of bullets. On June 10, Mombasa dockworkers began unloading the cargo and preparing it for overland travel to its final destination: South Sudan.
The country was already well into a civil war that began on December 15, 2013, when clashes broke out in the capital of Juba between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebel soldiers aligned with Riek Machar, Kiir’s former vice president. Little more than two years had passed since South Sudan broke off from Sudan following a long civil war…
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