Washington DC, October 26 : The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was evacuated from a UN camp for displaced persons in South Sudan on Wednesday, amid protests against President Salva Kiir.
According to The Hill, a spokesperson for the US Mission to the UN confirmed that Haley and her party were escorted out of the site after Diplomatic Security agents deemed the area was no longer secure.Haley’s visit was cut short by a few minutes due to protests, upsetting the residents who intended to hand her a letter on the country’s “current crisis”.
A civil war, continuing for almost four years in South Sudan, has left tens of thousands of people dead and millions more displaced. The US ambassador was on a visit to the country as part of her three-nation tour in Africa.
Haley, who met with President Kiir to address the crisis, said the US was losing patience with his government over its efforts to end the civil war. “We have lost trust in this government and we now need to regain that trust,” Haley said in a statement released by the U.N. Mission in South Sudan.