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No Deal on South Sudan States, Boundaries as Deadline Nears

Lasuba Memo

   JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - With a Feb. 22 deadline fast approaching for South
   Sudan's rival leaders to form a unity government, there is still no
   agreement on how many states the country will have or their boundaries.

   The chief mediator in talks aimed at ending the stalemate chaired a
   six-hour consultative meeting on the matter Wednesday, but there was no
   breakthrough.

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