(21 May 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 21 May 2025
1. Set up of Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, walking outside office, pan to sign board
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"For years, the United States has been perhaps the biggest benefactor of South Sudan with regards to the amount of contributions it makes either officially, directly or unofficially through US organisations or associated organisations that are operating within the theatre of South Sudan. It is still going to remain engaged. It’s still a big contributor when it comes to even supporting some of the peace operations that have been going on in South Sudan. But that is not really an excuse for the United States to violate the sovereignty of South Sudan or to forcibly extract immigrants from its territory to a third country absent of a framework and even with that framework, I think considering the circumstances in South Sudan, is going to be inappropriate to deport immigrants from the United States to South Sudan when you’re sending them potentially to imminent death or suffering."
3. Wide of Khannenje
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"Recent months have seen, South Sudan itself descend into a state of further escalation and conflict and people in this region will not expect that the United States would actually be sending potential aliens that they deemed to be unfit to stay in the United States to South Sudan. From a place that’s relatively peaceful, that’s the United States, to a place that clearly may not exactly be safe for those who are being deported. And this may constitute a clear violation of international humanitarian law."
5. Mid of Khannenje
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"At a time when South Sudan has descended into a conflict spiral that has claimed many lives and displaced tens of thousands, I think that action is not only hypocritical but extremely dangerous and it sets an extremely dangerous precedent when it comes to international peace and security, but also when it comes to respecting the rights of refugees not just in the United States but all over the world."
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STORYLINE:
An analyst said on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s actions in reportedly deporting immigrants to South Sudan may set an "extremely dangerous precedent."
The comments from Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, come as the United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan, a chaotic country that’s once again in danger of collapsing into civil war.
The administration said it had expelled eight immigrants convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. but refused to say where they would end up.
If South Sudan is the confirmed destination, that means people from Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere are being sent to a nation they have no link to, thousands of miles from where they want to be.
"At a time when South Sudan has descended into a conflict spiral that has claimed many lives and displaced tens of thousands. I think that action is not only hypocritical but extremely dangerous and it sets an extremely dangerous precedent when it comes to international peace and security," said Khannenje.
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