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Can South Sudan feed its people ?

South Sudan's former rebel leader, Riek Machar, has been sworn in as vice-president in a bid to end a conflict which has devastated the country for more than two years. One of the consequences of the civil war has been the meltdown of the economy. So how will the return of Riek Machar to Juba change things? That's a question Newsday's James Copnall put to the finance minister David Deng Athorbei.

(A farmer prepares the cereal recently harvested in Panddap, in northern Bahr El-Ghazal on October 10, 2015. Credit: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images)

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