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Wrong start for Southern Sudan

It is unfortunate the world’s newest independent country, South Sudan, has learned the ropes of Africa’s greatest enemy to development – corruption – too soon.

According to President Silva Kiir, 75 Government officials and individuals close to it have stolen Sh343 billion ($4 billion) of public money by skimming off oil revenue and through a 2009 scandal in which billions of dollars worth of grain were ordered but not delivered.

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