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Dashed hopes as Kenyans’ rush for South Sudan bounty backfires

This photo taken on May 11, 2016 shows internally displaced people (IDPs) in Wau, South Sudan, due to armed clashes in surrounding villages, waiting to be registered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on May 11, 2016. [PHOTO: AFP]

She has oil. That has been enough selling point for South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation. Then came independence and Kenyans saw a window of opportunities.

In Juba, the country’s capital city, they saw business, adventure and possibility of a second home too. But hardly seven years after independence, the rush for this cake is causing Kenyans goosebumps.

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