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In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, containers used for hazardous chemicals lie exposed and piled up at a junkyard run by the Chinese-led Dar Petroleum Operating Company in Gumry, near Paloch, in South Sudan. The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits with the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, and accounts of &quot;alarming&quot; birth defects, miscarriages and other health problems, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

U.S. actor and activist George Clooney speaks at a press conference about South Sudan in London, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. The largest multinational oil consortium in South Sudan is &quot;proactively participating in the destruction&quot; of the country, the actor George Clooney and co-founder of The Sentry watchdog group told The Associated Press this week. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Watchdog says global oil consortium hurting South Sudan

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday Oct. 1, 2017 file photo, a truck waits outside a closed petrol station of the Nile Petroleum Corporation in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan's state-owned oil company has been &quot;captured by predatory elites&quot; and is being used to fund the country's civil war, according to reports by two investigative organizations. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

South Sudan oil money corruptly funds civil war, say reports

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press