Some water-bottling companies in South Sudan halted production after the government introduced a tax on plastic materials.

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan police said on Monday that 16 Sudanese nationals were killed in riots last week over the alleged killings of South Sudanese people in Sudan's El Gezira region.

Most army-controlled areas in Sudan have been plunged into blackouts following drone attacks on power generation facilities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, government officials and residents told Reuters.

In Wau, Western Bahr-el-Ghazal State in South Sudan, the Sudanese community held funeral prayers over the weekend for three victims of the reprisal attacks. The deceased were identified as Dr Abdulrahman Omer Mousa, Shams Al-Fallah, and Al-Bat’hani.

Videos verified by The Post show retaliatory killings by Sudan’s military after it recaptured the southern city of Wad Madani from the RSF paramilitary.

The worse Sudan’s self-appointed leaders behave, however, the more nobly its people respond. In West Kordofan state, on the country’s southern border, Salah Almogadm had been working at the Ministry of Agriculture. His job disappeared with the war.

The determination came as the United States announced sanctions against the Sudanese military chief, saying there was strong evidence of atrocities in the country.

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said what happened in Wad Madani was a heinous and "unacceptable" crime. He urged Sudan's government to protect South Sudanese citizens trapped there, and to investigate the killings with the help of international humanitarian organisations.

Sudan's army chief has ordered an investigation into allegations that his troops carried out widespread atrocities after recapturing the capital of Gezira state from their paramilitary rivals. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's move comes after widespread concern that civilians - including foreign nationals - were killed after the seizure of Wad Madani.

Another 12 people have died in the past two days in South Sudan in attacks on citizens from northern neighbour Sudan, the security forces reported Saturday, despite an overnight curfew.

South Sudanese authorities imposed a countrywide dusk-to-dawn curfew after a night of violence during which shops were looted in the capital.

The Biden administration takes action against Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing Sudan’s leaders of “blatant disregard of civilian lives” amid the civil war.