South Sudan's Vice President Benjamin Bol Mel attends the burial of the slain commander of the South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF), Lt. Gen. David Majur Dak, in Juba, on March 19.

A corrupt elite of predatory officials has looted billions of dollars from South Sudan’s oil revenue, while abandoning the country’s basic health and education services to the whims of foreign donors, a United Nations report says.

Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan has received more than US$23-billion in oil revenue and US$27-billion in foreign aid from countries such as Canada, but it remains one of the world’s poorest countries, with its economy collapsing and three-quarters of its population in need of emergency aid, the UN investigators found.

Canada alone has provided more than $1.1-billio

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