"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

President Kiir on BBC Hardtalk

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10 years ago PaanLuel Wël

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOx2E4rMJsM

The President of South Sudan has told the BBC his country faces one of its worst famines unless the current conflict is ended.

Speaking to the BBC’s Stephen Sackur on Hard Talk, Salva Kiir said it was essential that humanitarian agencies were allowed to work unchecked.

And he appealed to his rival, the rebel leader Riek Machar, to do all he could to end the fighting.

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