Hope for South Sudan’s Coffee Farmers with Nespresso-USAID Partnership
Apr 18, 2016 2:00 PM ET
Originally published on Triple Pundit
The world’s newest country, South Sudan, is also one of the most volatile nations on the planet. After years of civil war within Sudan, a referendum held in 2011 scored a 99 percent “yes” vote for independence. But any glee over separation from Sudan was short-lived. Two years later, fighting within the country sparked a civil war during which at least 300,000 people died and approximately 2 million people, or one in six South Sudanese citizens, fled their homes.
