South Sudan dismisses U.S. group corruption allegations, says threatens peace

Actors George Clooney (L-R) and Don Cheadle and The Sentry Co-founder John Prendergast discuss The Sentry's investigation of the role of national corruption in the ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, U.S.

South Sudan's government said it was deeply concerned by the release of a report by U.S. group Sentry alleging corruption among top officials, saying such allegations would damage peace efforts in a nation which has been riven by war.

Sentry, a group co-founded by actor George Clooney and activist John Prendergast, said South Sudan's leaders on both sides of the civil war and their families had profited from the conflict.