Analysis: Old Wounds, Ethnic Rivalries Stoke Sudan War Fever -- Ulf Laessing and Alexander Dziadosz, National Post/Reuters
JUBA/KHARTOUM — When petrol started running low in South Sudan’s capital this month, Peter Bashir Gbandi sensed a sinister force at work.
Rather than blaming a severe shortage of dollars, which the newly-independent country needs to buy imported fuel, the lawmaker pointed to arch rival Sudan – likely in league with Horn of Africa immigrants running filling stations, he said.
A few days later, a member of Sudan’s parliament railed against the hundreds of thousands of ethnic southerners living in Khartoum, many of whom do not hold passports and have never been to the South, demanding the “fifth column” be expelled.
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