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Exclusive: Elites who loot South Sudan to live large in Nairobi

 

Kenyans queue at Juba Airport in January 2014 to board a plane home following violence that broke out in South Sudan. [File, Standard]

A satellite city for playboys to blow off blood money and a mother city for warlords to draw blood -- the sordid contrast between Nairobi and Juba.

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