KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's president said on Tuesday the country would launch a new currency, a day after newly independent South Sudan confirmed it would do the same, as both states worked to disentangle their economies after the split.
The move came as the United Nations reported fresh violence in a northern border region, the first time since South Sudan declared independence on Saturday at the climax of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.
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