A South Sudan activist in the US is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back home
By ANITA SNOW
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the government back home. Peter Biar Ajak fled to the U.S. with the help of the American government four years ago after he said South Sudan’s president ordered him abducted or killed. Emergency visas were issued at the time to Ajak and his family after they spent weeks in hiding in Kenya. A federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday charges Ajak and the Utah man of conspiring to illegally export a cache of weapons through a third country to South Sudan.