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Nichola Mandil Jenny Hill
BBC News, Juba BBC News, Johannesburg
South Sudan's vice-president has urged the Muslim community to support Sudanese refugees who have fled the ongoing war in their country. The former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has said he will never vote again for the party he once led.
"Help the government to avert the economic crisis the Mr Zuma, who's now standing against the governing ANC under the banner of the new MK party, addressed supporters outside the high court in Johannesburg.
country is facing," Vice-President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, told worshipers He was appearing there as part of his ongoing efforts to take private legal action against President, Cyril Ramaphosa over the alleged leak of Mr Zuma's medical records.
during Eid al-Fitr prayers in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday. General elections are due at the end of next month, in which the ANC could lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
Many businessmen in South Sudan are Muslims from Somalia and Sudan.
Eid al-Fitr is a feast that marks the end of the Holy month of Ramadan – the
Muslims’ month of fasting.
Civil
war broke out in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on 15 April last
year. Next Monday will mark one year since the beginning of the conflict that has killed at least 14,000 people.
According
to UN estimates, more than 560,000 people have fled the conflict in Sudan and crossed over into neighbouring South Sudan – most of them South
Sudanese who had also fled the violence in their county in 2013 and 2016.
The
UN estimates that an average of 1,850 new arrivals from Sudan enter South Sudan
every day.
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