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Weak government breeds lawlessness in new state

By Joe Kiarie

Is xenophobia taking its toll on the world’s newest state? Or is the seemingly extensive persecution of foreigners in South Sudan a mere symptom of an infant and highly impoverished nation struggling to start from the ruinous effects of a 21-year civil war?

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