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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 26 Apr 2016

    "We should be able to produce our own food within a year" -South Sudan's finance minister 📻 http://bbc.in/1MYafk9 pic.twitter.com/cHONgaPXlx

    10:11 PM - 26 Apr 2016
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      1. @Biafran Biafra‏ @ekdillinger007 26 Apr 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @Biafran Biafra Retweeted @Biafran Biafra

        @BBCAfrica We are looking for the day you report the killing of Christian #Biafra in Islamic Nigeria #FreeBiafrahttps://twitter.com/ekdillinger007/status/725169236772003840 …

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        @Biafran Biafra @ekdillinger007
        #Fulani terrorist in Enugu, but #Fulani president #Buhari is more interested in pipeline vandals that does not kill pic.twitter.com/WdSYHPqjYG
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      1. Jimm_Jimz‏ @jimm_jimz 26 Apr 2016
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        @BBCAfrica It's very painful & absurd to see Africa's oil rich nation go hungry bse of the parochial power hungry politicians

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      1. VigneswaryEliathamby‏ @VigneswaryEliat 8 May 2016
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        @BBCAfrica ?

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      1. Chiemerie Acho‏ @AchoChiemerie 27 Apr 2016
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        @BBCAfrica that sounds like a country with focused leadership.

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      1. aschalew aragaw‏ @AschalewAragaw 27 Apr 2016
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        @BBCAfrica nice for Africa

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      1. Nansinguza Jacob‏ @NansinguzaJ 26 Apr 2016
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        @BBCAfrica A good way to go. Food aid unless for emergency purposes has made us lazy than hardworking. Teach me how to fish...

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      1. Karungu‏ @Njue_Karungu 26 Apr 2016
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        @BBCAfrica that's being too ambitious.

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