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South Sudan to change currency to improve economy

South Sudan’s cabinet agreed on Friday to change the country’s currency in order to improve the economy, the government spokesman said, without giving further details.

“The cabinet has decided that the current currency should be changed....This is to improve our economic situation,” information minister Michael Makuei Lueth told a news conference in the capital Juba following a cabinet meeting.

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