A peace agreement, signed last January, ended nearly two decades of civil war in southern Sudan and attracted billions of dollars of foreign investment.
A major reconstruction project is fuelling the economy, but many Sudanese are unable to take advantage.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Juba.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"