President Salva Kiir is not a good leader, but bad international policies can compel him to become a worse one.
It's no coincidence that South Sudan's President Salva Kiir cracked down hard on dissent at precisely the same moment he reluctantly signed the 'Compromise Peace Agreement' - a deal that should, ostensibly, bring an end to the last 20 months of fighting with the SPLA In Opposition (SPLA-iO) forces. This also reveals why the tools of targeted financial sanctions, newly fashionable in Washington DC, must be used with extreme caution lest they worsen the situation they are supposed to redress.
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