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At midnight on 9 July 2011, southern Sudan became an independent country under the name "Republic of South Sudan". [21] On 14 July 2011, South Sudan became the 193rd member state of the United Nations [22] [23] and on 28 July 2011, South Sudan joined the African Union as its 54th member state. [24]
The South Sudan Library Foundation was co-founded by Yawusa Kintha and Kevin Lenahan. [232] [233] [234] Health and humanitarian situation
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a United Nations member state , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a member state of the African Union , [ 6 ] and a member state of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development . [ 7 ]
South Sudan: 9 July 2011: 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum: 9 July 2011: Separation of Southern Sudan from Sudan Sudan: 15 April 2010: First democratic election since the Second Sudanese Civil War: 1 January 1956: Independence from Egyptian and British joint rule: 9 July 2011: South Sudan secedes from Sudan Tanzania: 1 July 1991
Map of Sudan from 2011 with South Sudan independent. The history of Sudan refers to the territory that today makes up Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which became independent in 2011. The territory of Sudan is geographically part of a larger African region, also known by the term "Sudan".
A referendum took place in Southern Sudan from 9 to 15 January 2011, [1] on whether the region should remain a part of Sudan or become independent. [2] [3] [4] The referendum was one of the consequences of the 2005 Naivasha Agreement between the Khartoum central government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).
Sudan’s top military general held talks in Juba Monday with South Sudan's president on his second trip abroad since the war in his country started earlier this year. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan ...
The river Sobat in South Sudan where the first King Nyikang founded the Shilluk Kingdom. The Shilluk, like other Nilotic peoples, do not give great importance to cosmology. The Shilluk focus on a figure who lived so long ago his life is shrouded in myth: King Nyikang. [22] His origins were considered divine.