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At midnight on 9 July 2011, southern Sudan became an independent country under the name "Republic of South Sudan". [23] On 14 July 2011, South Sudan became the 193rd member state of the United Nations [24] [25] and on 28 July 2011, South Sudan joined the African Union as its 54th member state. [26]
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]
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 ...
Though South Sudanese law limits marriage to those age 18 and over, it's rarely enforced, particularly in rural areas. And activists are trying to change this.
Since independence in 1956, the history of Sudan has been tarnished by internal conflict, including the First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972), the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005), the War in Darfur (2003–2020)–culminating in the secession of South Sudan on 9 July 2011, after which the South Sudanese Civil War took place therein ...
The total death toll from the second civil war in South Sudan is estimated at more than two million, most of them South Sudanese civilians. Four million South Sudanese were displaced and have been gradually returning since the end of the war. [20] Supplying the returnees is a problem, as South Sudan's agriculture was also severely affected by ...
[3] [7] [8] South Sudanese nationality is typically obtained under the principle of jus soli, i.e. by birth in South Sudan, or jus sanguinis, born to parents with South Sudanese ancestry. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] It can be granted to persons with an affiliation to the country, or to a permanent resident who has lived in the country for a given period of ...