South Sudan Traders Demand $100m for Feeding Soldiers
A group of 200 traders in South Sudan are demanding an estimated $100m (£80m) for food they supplied to training camps for soldiers over the last two years.
The suppliers were contracted by the National Transitional Committee (NTC), a body formed by the unity government to oversee the implementation of a peace deal that brings together rival sides which fought in the civil war into a unified army.
The traders also supplied non-food items such as tents, blankets, bedsheets and mattresses for soldiers in the camps. But some of them have not been paid since 2019.
Early this month, the government promised that their money would be paid but it has not fulfilled the promise.
Source: BBC News
