Senator Chris Coons on War, Famine in South Sudan

Fresh From His April Trip to the Region, Coons Will Address the Implications of the Crisis for U.S. Policy

Senator Chris Coons and his colleague Senator Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just witnessed first-hand one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in the world today—the effects of South Sudan’s civil war, when they visited in the world’s largest refugee settlement in northern Uganda. Senator Coons traveled on to South Sudan where he met with officials of the U.N. mission and the South Sudanese government and members of the country’s political opposition. Join the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday, May 11, at 9:30 am as Senator Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, shares insights from his trip and discusses the U.S. response to the crisis.

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