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South Sudan Edging Closer to Genocide - UN
The United Nations says South Sudan is drawing closer to genocide. We have a special report from the world's youngest country.
The United Nations says South Sudan is drawing closer to genocide. We have a special report from the world's youngest country. Also in the programme... As militants kill more than 30 in Afghanistan, Owen Bennett-Jones is just over the border in Northern Pakistan, and we'll hear how invading snakes are lethal not just for animals but for trees on the island of Guam.
(Photo: UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien (R) in South Sudan. Credit: ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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