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South Sudan: Nation in Major Economic Meltdown
East African, 19 March 2016
South Sudan has been experiencing a severe economic meltdown since it devalued its currency last December, in an effort to stabilise the prices of food commodities. Read more »
South Sudan Suffers Major Economic Meltdown
According to a 2014 United Nations Development Programme report, the socio-political and economic situation in the country took a severe knock with the eruption of violence in December 2013.
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