CORRUPTION and the diversion of oil revenues are holding back South Sudan’s social and economic development, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has said. The Commission’s report — Plundering a nation: How rampant corruption unleashed a human rights crisis in South Sudan — was published last month and documents how oil and non-oil revenues are “siphoned off through opaque off-budget schemes and politically connected contracts while millions of South Sudanese are denied basic services”. On 12 September, the South Sudan Council of Churches, including the country’s Episcopal Church, warned that the country stood at a “perilous crossroads where stagnation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement risks undoing sustained efforts towards cultivating peace in South Sudan”.