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HARDtalk: Emmanuel Jal - musician and former child soldier

01/04/2014

Emmanuel Jal - musician and former child soldier

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to South Sudanese singer and political activist Emmanuel Jal.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to South Sudanese singer and political activist Emmanuel Jal. What lies behind the new wave of conflict in South Sudan and how can it be stopped?

HARDtalk celebrates its 20th anniversary with a repeat of one of its classic interviews. In front of an audience in London in 2014, Zeinab Badawi spoke to the acclaimed South Sudanese singer and political activist Emmanuel Jal. He was captured and forced to fight as a child soldier during the Sudanese civil war. His country South Sudan, the world's newest nation, may now be independent but it has descended into vicious ethnic fighting. What lies behind this new wave of conflict and how can it be stopped?

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