The birth of the New Sudan

A great history in African politics is unfolding seeing the birth of the new nation, the New Sudan or the South Sudan. This means that the the African continent will be having 54 nations from the current 53. It also means that the once largest country in Africa will be no more and the place will be taken by another country, Algeria which is now the second largest. Flights to Sudan...

All this history will be documented when a vote for the secession of South Sudan comes to pass by the 15th January 2011. This is a vote following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 in the Kenyan town of Naivasha between the then leader of SPLM, the late John Garang and the President of Sudan Omar El-Bashir. The people of South Sudan, who for a long time have complained of marginalisation have been in civil war for a very long time and have always wanted their own independence from the North.

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The main difference beween the South and the North is mainly ethinic difference and religion; the notherners are mainly Arabs whose religion is islam and the Southerers are blaccks and their main reeligion is christianity and other African religions. Their main source of contention is the control of the oil rich district of Abyei which lies along the border of the north and the south.

The whole world is watching the outcome of the referendum and is most certainly that the majority will choose to separate from the north and form their state of South Sudan. This will greatly impact the politics of the great lakes region and the East African region, with the south Sudan already showing interests of joining the East African community. This is also evidenced in the fact that the East African countries of Uganda and Kenya have got the largest number of Sudaneese refugees. Whether the apirations of the people of south Sudan come to be realised, or not, simply lies in their own hands and how they handle their affairs.

Otherwise, the rest of us are there to watch and appreciate whatever good results come out of the referendum exercise. Travel safaris to Africa...