Pulitzer Center Update May 9, 2017
This Week: South Sudan's Endless War
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South Sudan in Crisis
South Sudan is the world’s newest nation but ethnic violence, economic collapse and famine are...
![Still image from Jane Ferguson's PBS NewsHour video "South Sudan's civil war spirals into genocide, leaving ghost towns in its wake." South Sudan, 2017.](/sites/default/files/05-09-17/screen_shot_2017-05-09_at_3.13.22_pm.png "Still image from Jane Ferguson's PBS NewsHour video "South Sudan's civil war spirals into genocide, leaving ghost towns in its wake." South Sudan, 2017.")
Jane Ferguson
It took less than six years for South Sudan, the world's newest nation, to fall apart. As grantee Jane Ferguson reports in this 3-part series for the PBS NewsHour, a particularly vicious civil war has targeted civilians and pushed the country to the brink of famine. "Neither side in this war is backing down. It is spiraling into a frenzy of ethnic-driven murder and revenge. The dream of a peaceful South Sudan is dying with its people."
Sarah Wildman
In France, the center held. Grantee Sarah Wildman, writing for Vox, looks at how 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron turned back Marine Le Pen's tide of far-right resentment and fear.
Beth Gardiner
As the Trump administration promises to put American coal miners back to work, grantee Beth Gardiner's story for National Geographic explains China's mega-investment in wind and solar power.
