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The South Sudanese wars of independence was the armed struggle for autonomy or independence of South Sudan from Sudan.Rebels in southern Sudan fought for greater self-determination against the central government of Sudan, which tried to suppress the uprising using the army and allied militias.
At independence, South Sudan was at war with at least seven armed groups. [45] According to UN figures, the various conflicts affected nine of its ten states, with tens of thousands displaced. [45] Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) also operates in a wide area that includes South Sudan. [46]
A simultaneous referendum was supposed to be held in Abyei on whether to become part of South Sudan but it was postponed due to conflict over demarcation and residency rights. [5] On 7 February 2011, the referendum commission published the final results, with a landslide majority of 98.83% voting in favour of independence. [6]
South Sudan (/ s uː ˈ d ɑː n,-ˈ d æ n /), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. [16] It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the west by the Central African Republic. South Sudan's diverse ...
South Sudan is not ready to hold its first post-independence elections in December and political players are discussing whether voting should be held this year, the U.N.’s top envoy in the ...
The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2020, between forces of the government and opposition forces. The Civil War caused rampant human rights abuses, including forced displacement, ethnic massacres, and killings of journalists by various parties.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long conflict. Early in the ongoing war in Sudan, South Sudan’s Kiir attempted to mediate between the warring generals, as part of an ...
Southern Sudan (Arabic: حكومة جنوب السودان Ḥukūmat Janūb as-Sūdān; Dinka: Lɔ̈k Bïkrotmac Paguot Thudän) was an autonomous region consisting of the ten southern states of Sudan between its formation in July 2005 and independence as the Republic of South Sudan in July 2011.