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Barnaba Marial Benjamin

HARDtalk: Barnaba Marial Benjamin

11/02/2014 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Barnaba Marial Benjamin

Stephen Sackur speaks to Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Foreign Minister of South Sudan

South Sudan is in danger of tearing itself apart following clashes between government forces and rebels. Can peace talks salvage unity from the wreckage of a brutal power struggle?

Two years after its birth as a nation, South Sudan is in danger of tearing itself apart. Weeks of bloody clashes between government forces loyal to the President and rebels backing the former Vice-President have left ten thousand dead and three quarters of a million people homeless. HARDtalk speaks to South Sudan's foreign minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin. Can peace talks salvage unity from the wreckage of a brutal power struggle?

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