And, you know, if you want to find out how the war is going, you have to go there because if you read the regular newspapers, you don't know.

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The wider story is about the stability of South Sudan and of how the country may go to war with Khartoum before a referendum on full independence in 2011.

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It's too early to say how the bidding war will go, but I'd bet that HKT will be broken up into at least two and possibly three or four parts.

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