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Why is peace in South Sudan so elusive?

01/06/2017

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Stephen Sackur speaks to David Shearer, head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan.

Stephen Sackur speaks to David Shearer, head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan, about what hope there is for the people of that country.

Stephen Sackur speaks to the head of the United Nations mission in South Sudan, David Shearer. 

South Sudan's lethal cocktail of civil war, ethnic division, failed governance, widespread hunger and disease threatens millions of lives. It represents a tragic failure on the part of the rulers of Africa's newest country, and on the part of the United Nations mission there which has brought neither peace nor protection. What hope is there for the people of South Sudan?

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