South Sudan – can the world’s youngest country survive?

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🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Tim Franks travels to South Sudan to find out why the world's youngest nation has failed to deliver on the hopes placed in it at independence.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.3	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:10.7	Hello and welcome to assignment
0:12.4	on the BBC World Service.
0:14.0	I'm Tim Franks.
0:16.0	South Sudan is the land of superlatives.
0:19.4	It's the world's youngest country.
0:21.2	It has the most recent peace deal
0:23.5	and it's the state with some of the worst
0:25.4	human development rankings anywhere.
0:28.0	I was last there in 2010, the year before independence.
0:31.8	There was tremendous optimism
0:33.6	that the decades of war with the North
0:36.0	and among competing factions in the South
0:38.2	should now be over.
0:40.1	After millions had died and millions more
0:42.6	had been displaced, this brand-new nation
0:45.6	born aloft on regional and global goodwill
0:48.9	would tread a brighter path.
0:51.4	The optimism quickly faded.
0:53.9	In 2013, Civil War erupted,
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