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The Secret Sale of South Sudan

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Originally published by The Times

 

Investors are buying up huge tracts of fertile land in Southern Sudan, Tristan McConnell reports from Juba.

A week before Southern Sudan's independence, investors have already bought up nearly a tenth of the new nation in a series of huge land deals that researchers say cheat the nacent nation of its birthright. 

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