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South Sudan: Can the World’s Youngest Country Survive?

Tim Franks travels to South Sudan to find out why the world's youngest nation has failed to deliver on the hopes placed in it at independence.

There is a shaky ceasefire in place in South Sudan. A deal was signed in August to end two years of bitter civil war between government troops and rebel factions in Africa’s newest state. Thousands of people have been killed and more than two million displaced. Tim Franks travels to South Sudan to find out why the world's youngest nation has failed to deliver on the hopes placed on it at independence.

(Photo: A child stands by the UN camp near Malakal, in Sudan)

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Mon 2 Nov 2015 06:06GMT

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