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One Square Mile: Sudan

Zeinab Badawi meets Salva Kiir, President of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region

Zeinab Badawi interviews Salva Kiir, the first elected president of the semi-autonomous southern region of Sudan, for BBC World News's One Square Mile series. The leader of south Sudan's former rebel group the SPLM, was sworn in as president following his landslide victory in April's elections.

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