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A bad smell is wafting out of the oil wells of South Sudan

BY PETER WANYONYI

Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, is not a very decisive man. Back in June 2012, President Kiir ‘discovered’ (that’s the word used by his office) that 75 senior government officials had stolen more than US $ 4 billion from State coffers.

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