Fault Lines investigates how the US helped create the world’s newest nation, and then watched it spiral into civil war.
From: Counting the Cost
South Sudan: Economics of a failed state
We analyse why South Sudan, despite its vast oil wealth, is still suffering economically four years after independence.
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