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| South Sudan became the world’s newest nation on 9th July,
[marking] the final step in the six-year Comprehensive
Peace Agreement (CPA), a deal that ended the 1983-2005
north-south war. The government is upbeat, but after the
euphoria of celebrations and the pomp of speeches, the new
nation faces a mammoth task.
Relations with the North Exactly how North and South Sudan divorce is critical to the future for both states. Key negotiations still remain - most importantly over oil. Border conflict has already forced thousands to flee, including some
110,000 people following the northern occupation of the contested Abyei region in May. Bombings continue in the northern oil state of South Kordofan, where fighters once loyal to the South complain they have been left abandoned as the South splits away. Both sides have traded accusation......
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