South Sudan: seeking Arab funds | beyondbrics – FT.com

As crisis-torn South Sudan approaches its birth on Saturday, it is appealing to potential Arab partners for support for a post-independence state development plan.

Dubai, already an increasingly important trade hub for Africa, is a natural place to start drumming up support.

Months after a vote to secede from Muslim Arab Sudan, South Sudan will celebrate its new found nationhood after a 2005 peace deal ended decades of violent civil war with Khartoum.

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