One year of South Sudan Test 6

Aleteia - published on 03/08/13 - updated on 06/07/17

On July 9 2011, the world welcomed the Republic of South Sudan as Africa's newest independent nation. A year on from South Sudan's secession from Sudan, the independence celebrations are already a distant memory as tears of joy quickly turned to tears of sadness. Less than a decade after the end of a bitterly fought civil war, Sudan and South Sudan are once again poised to return to full-scale con

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