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South Sudan rescinds order chasing away alien workers

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has withdrawn the controversial order banishing alien workers from his country.

South Sudan Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Peter Bashir, said the order issued by his colleague of the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development Ngor Kolong Ngor in mid-September, should first have been debated in the National Assembly before being proclaimed as Government position.

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