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South Sudan becomes world's newest nation
AP via AJC ^ | 5:11 p.m. Friday, July 8, 2011 | MAGGIE FICK

Posted on 07/08/2011 2:32:34 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

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To: hal ogen; All

Let’s just say that Sudan now has split and gone their own seperate ways.


41 posted on 07/09/2011 7:06:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

It tells the story of that nation.


42 posted on 07/09/2011 7:07:45 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Pan_Yan

Yes, I’m not optimistic about the Muslim North leaving them alone. Other than that, they’ll be okay if they don’t borrow a lot of money and don’t become socialist.


43 posted on 07/09/2011 7:10:04 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Pan_Yan.
...after two civil wars over five decades that cost the lives of at least 2 million people... culmination of a January independence vote guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal that ended the most recent north-south war... Chol Allen, a 32-year-old minister, escaped Sudan in 2003 and eventually settled in Memphis, Tennessee. He returned to Juba two months ago for the midnight party, though he plans to go back to the U.S. "I came here for this moment," he said. "We were all born into war. All of us," he said while pointing at a crowded pick-up truck of youngsters. "This generation will see the hope of the newborn nation."

44 posted on 07/09/2011 8:03:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pan_Yan
All the best to them. I think it depends on how good of a leader this President Kiir is as well as the current crop of officials. If they are all corrupt, then forget it. If they have a genuine interest in a free Republic then it might work.
45 posted on 07/09/2011 10:22:03 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: Melchior

I hope so-they’ve been through hell. May Southern Sudan be a success story in a continent that badly needs one.


46 posted on 07/09/2011 12:30:57 PM PDT by tanuki (O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
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To: bert

That would be Jordan and I don’t think they plan on doing a name change.


47 posted on 07/09/2011 12:39:32 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Amberdawn

Aaah, yes and no. The area where the oil is called Abeya and they’re still talking/fighting about the boundaries for this area. The north still controlls the pipeline to the Red Sea.


48 posted on 07/09/2011 2:10:10 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Scanian

-——That would be Jordan——

When I look at the crystal ball I see that.......

Eventually, East Palestine will be the west Bank and Gaza will be West Palestine till put down by Egypt


49 posted on 07/09/2011 2:36:43 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....Flash mobs are trickle down leftwingREDISTRIBUTION))
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To: Pan_Yan

That continent changes country names and boundaries more than I change my underwear. Such a beautiful place but such a S-Hole at the same time.


52 posted on 07/09/2011 4:03:33 PM PDT by eak3
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To: F15Eagle

I saw a photo today in the Spanish press, and it said (in Spanish, my translation) “South Sudanese Christians Celebrate Their Country.”

At least somebody can admit that these are Christians. Of course, the North Sudanese Muslim lunatic has not called off his attacks, and I doubt that the South Sudanese will get much support from us. Good luck to this new country, and I hope they survive and fight back and win.


53 posted on 07/09/2011 4:33:55 PM PDT by livius
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To: F15Eagle

I’m sure they will. I saw a photo of them celebrating and they are certainly very happy. But you know the North Sudanese are not going to let this go on for long.


55 posted on 07/09/2011 6:44:26 PM PDT by livius
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To: bjorn14

Oh well-Figures.


56 posted on 07/09/2011 7:18:49 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Pan_Yan

Congratulations and Many Years to the new nation of South Sudan!!!!


57 posted on 07/10/2011 4:31:54 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Pan_Yan
Thousands of women and children abducted during 20-year civil war.

Background

Slavery has a long history in Sudan, Africa’s largest country. For centuries, Arabs from what is now the north of Sudan routinely raided African villages to the south. In 1983, those raids resumed when the Muslim, Arab-dominated government in Khartoum attempted to impose Sharia law on the largely Christian and animist south. As fighting broke out between north and south, women and children became the spoils of war for both sides, setting off a much-publicized human rights crisis. Some captives are sold as slaves, while others are forced into military service or to work as field laborers. Estimates on the number of victims range from 5,000 (a government number) to 100,000 (an NGO number). Ceasefire talks in September 2003 offered some hope for an end to Sudan’s slave trade, but other traffickers are at work here, too. Among them is the Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army, which uses Sudan as a market for its own supply of abducted children.

source

58 posted on 07/10/2011 5:09:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (,)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
when do we send them our first foreign aid check?

As long as the boy-king is in charge... never, since Southern Sudanese are Christians escaping decades of Islamonazi oppression.
59 posted on 07/12/2011 12:55:01 PM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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