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South Sudan president lands in Khartoum for summit: AFP

Published September 3, 2013 Updated September 3, 2013 07:27am

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By Parvez Jabri

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KHARTOUM: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir landed in Khartoum on Tuesday for a summit aimed at averting a shutdown of oil pipelines vital to both stricken economies, an AFP reporter said.

Kiir, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, arrived on a Kenya Airways jet at about 0710 GMT. The South Sudanese leader was welcomed on the tarmac by his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir and cabinet ministers as a military band played.

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