[TOP STORY] Expert analysis: What lies ahead for post-Assad Syria?

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‘South Africa has a very strong understanding and history of nation building, reconstruction, development capacity and institution building, and perhaps that is something that we could offer the Syrians,’ says Zeenat Adam, deputy executive director at the Afro-Middle East Centre.

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