10/25/2017

NIKKI HALEY/SUDAN/UN: “The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was evacuated from a U.N. camp for displaced people in South Sudan on Wednesday [10-25-17] because of a demonstration against President Salva Kiir, witnesses said.
Shortly after Haley left the camp, U.N. security guards fired tear gas to disperse the crowd of more than 100 residents who looted and destroyed the office of a charity operating there, an aid worker at the camp said. The aid worker spoke on condition of anonymity out of safety fears.
Haley, in the middle of a three-country African visit, met earlier Wednesday with Kiir over the country’s long civil war. Speaking later to U.N. station Radio Miraya, Haley said she warned Kiir that the U.S. no longer trusted South Sudan’s government and was no longer prepared to wait for change. She did not give details.
The United Nations confirmed the incident with Haley, saying camp residents ‘became upset that she was not able to meet with them, due to time constraint.’ The U.S. Embassy did not comment on Haley’s evacuation.”

-The Associated Press, “Nikki Haley evacuated from volatile South Sudan camp,” Politico, Oct. 25, 2017 04:26pm