Stig Östlund

lördag, juli 09, 2011

Child of war, South Sudan is born; now the struggle begins


Thousands of people flooded into the streets of this unlikely riverside boomtown early Saturday to celebrate the birth of the world's newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan - a land of searing poverty, windfall petrodollars and violent strife.
A crescendo of celebratory car horns rose in anticipation until they broke at midnight when joyous mayhem flooded into the streets to mark what may be one of the most grueling climbs to statehood that any nation has endured: a 50-year civil war that cost more than 2 million lives, tore families apart and sent hundreds of thousands into a diaspora around the world.
Violence is still endemic. More than 100,000 refugees have fled fighting in the Abyei region that both Sudan and South Sudan contest, and the past month has seen a harsh campaign by the Arab-led Sudanese government against African South Sudan sympathizers in the isolated Nuba mountains.

Read more >> http://www.bradenton.com/2011/07/08/3333477/child-of-war-south-sudan-is-born.html

The Bradenton Herald is a McClatchy newspaper in Bradenton, Florida, in the United States.
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