"This is very bad news," says Alex DE Waal, a Sudan expert at Harvard University.

“这是一个非常坏的消息”，哈佛大学苏丹专家Alex de Waal表示。

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Alex DE Waal, now a program director at the Social Science Research Council, was there at that time, as a doctoral candidate doing anthropological fieldwork.

当时，阿莱克斯·德瓦尔作为一名博士生在当地进行人类学研究，如今他是社会科学研究会的项目负责人之一。

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Alex de Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University.

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Alex de Waal, who is advising the African Union mediation panel for South Sudan and Sudan, wrote this week that such a pipeline might take three years to build.

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