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South Sudan’s embassy in London. Photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org

A South Sudanese diplomat says his country’s embassy in London has been closed due to a failure to pay rent since August last year, the Voice of America website reported.
The embassy is located in Old Marylebone Road in Marylebone.

National flag of South Sudan.

A spokesman for South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry insisted the government has not received official notice from its landlord in London.

“We are trying to our best so that we are able to pay the arrears that are needed by the landlords,” Mawien Makol Arik told Voice of America, and acknowledged the embassy is experiencing financial probelms.

The government of South Sudan announced in 2015 it would temporarily close several embassies as the war-torn country’s economy deteriorated.

South Sudan keeps about 24 embassies and missions in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia and America.

In June 2017 South Sudan recalled its top diplomats from seven countries, but said the recalls have nothing to do with the country’s economic crisis.

The crisis, sparked by four years of civil war, has left South Sudan’s government strapped for cash, and most of the country’s envoys around the world have not received salaries for up to one year, Voice of America reports.

South Sudan’s diplomats in Washington DC were finally paid one month’s salary this month.

News source: www.voanews.com – www.voanews.com

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