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South Sudan's modern history is closely tied to that of Sudan. These ties began in the 19th century with the southward expansion of the Ottoman Khedivate of Egypt and the establishment of Turco-Egyptian Sudan with the land that makes up modern South Sudan remaining part of Sudan through the Mahdist State , Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the Republic ...
The child marriage rate in South Sudan is 52%. [145] Homosexual acts are illegal. [146] Recruitment of child soldiers has also been cited as a serious problem in the country. [147] In April 2014, Navi Pillay, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that more than 9,000 child soldiers had been fighting in South Sudan's civil war ...
Location of South Sudan. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to South Sudan: . South Sudan is a landlocked country in east-central Africa that is part of the United Nations subregion of Eastern Africa. [1]
A year later in 2012 during the Heglig Crisis Sudan would achieve victory against South Sudan, a war over oil-rich regions between South Sudan's Unity and Sudan's South Kordofan states. The events would later be known as the Sudanese Intifada, which would end only in 2013 after al-Bashir promised he would not seek re-election in 2015. He later ...
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South Sudan's Constitution of 2011, The Constitute project.; The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan, 2011 Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine This undated, "undocumented" document (i.e., there is at the source Web site no precise date given for the document nor is there any wording internal or external to the document which describes it as being the revised or ...
On 9 January 2011, the result of the independence referendum was for South Sudan to secede, which would become effective with independence on 9 July. [46] [47] The Transitional Constitution of South Sudan was adopted in April stating in Article 45 that anyone whose parents were South Sudanese had an inalienable right to nationality. [48]
The people of the southern Sudan had almost no contacts with the northern Sudan, until the beginning of Egyptian rule (also known as Turkish Sudan or Turkiyah) in the north in the early 1820s and the subsequent expansion of the slave trade into the south. According to an oral history, the Nilotic peoples — the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, and others ...