| rdfs:comment | - South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a country in central Africa that borders Darfour and Sudan in the north, Ethiopia in the east, Kenya, Uganda and Congo in the south and the Central African Republic in the west. Its capital is Juba.
- It might have a communist side in the civil war and become a Marxist-Leninist Socialist Republic.
- South Sudan has one of the lowest rates of literacy in the World, the people give high priority to Education but lack of Economic development, the after effects of the civil war and continued conflict with Sudan limit what can be done at least for now. Fresh civil war has broken out.
- The flag of South Sudan is an equal horizontal tricolour of black, red, and green, with a blue pile superimposed with a yellow 5-pointed star.
- South Sudan is the newest country in Africa- as well as the entire world- as of 2011. As one might expect, it broke off from the country of Sudan, following a long civil war and a vote in which over 95% of the people voted to split off. The reasons for the civil war and split are ethnic, religious, and economic; Sudan is mostly Arab and Muslim, while South Sudan is mostly non-Arab and Christian. Furthermore, most of the oil in Sudan was located in the South, without which the government of Sudan would have a very hard time operating. Currently, there is an agreement to share the oil revenues between South Sudan (which is where the oil itself is located) and with Sudan (which has the pipelines which transport the petroleum to a port in their territory.)
- LONDON -- Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labor camp. Now he will get to run at the 2012 Olympics. Marial's heartwarming rise from a fearful kid who hid in a cave, fled his war-torn homeland and finally arrived in the United States as a refugee took another incredible turn in July 2012. Despite having no passport and officially no country – and at one time very little hope – the 28-year-old marathoner was cleared by the IOC to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag. "The dream has come true. The hope of South Sudan is alive."
- South Sudan (i/ˌsaʊθ suːˈdæn/ or /suːˈdɑːn/), officially the Republic of South Sudan and previously known as Southern Sudan, is a landlocked country in east-central Africa[8] that is part of the United Nations subregion of Eastern Africa. Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city. The capital city is planned to be changed to the more centrally located Ramciel in the future. South Sudan is bordered by the Republic of Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and the Central African Republic to the west
- South Sudan, more commonly known in the outside world as "Mordor", is a country in Africa. It is barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust. Where the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. It is famous worldwide for its appearances on Oxfam television adverts, in which the South Sudanese seem perplexed because the seeds they plant refuse to grow. The South Sudanese refuse to accept that seeds will not grow in a desert, they require fertile land in order to grow, and South Sudan has no fertile land. The South Sudanese are also convinced that they are currently suffering from a drought, in reality however they are experiencing their normal amount of rainfall. Unfortunately their normal amount of rainfall is 0 mm. Psychologists have identified this misplaced belief as a "Mass Cultu
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| abstract | - South Sudan is the newest country in Africa- as well as the entire world- as of 2011. As one might expect, it broke off from the country of Sudan, following a long civil war and a vote in which over 95% of the people voted to split off. The reasons for the civil war and split are ethnic, religious, and economic; Sudan is mostly Arab and Muslim, while South Sudan is mostly non-Arab and Christian. Furthermore, most of the oil in Sudan was located in the South, without which the government of Sudan would have a very hard time operating. Currently, there is an agreement to share the oil revenues between South Sudan (which is where the oil itself is located) and with Sudan (which has the pipelines which transport the petroleum to a port in their territory.) Currently, South Sudan is underdeveloped, with very little infrastructure, a massive health crisis (extreme rates of infant mortality and diseases that have long since disappeared in western and even most African countries), and continuing instability in the border with Sudan to the north. The consequences of decades of neglect, violence and exploitation from the north have also led to a lack of schools. To top that off, the country is landlocked and dependent on Sudanese infrastructure to export oil, but this may change. There have been plans to build a second pipeline to transport South Sudan's petroleum through predominately Christian East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, etc) to a port on the Indian Ocean, instead of the Sudanese ports on the Red Sea. Since South Sudan is landlocked, it needs help from other countries to export its petroleum. Statistics are hard to come by, but it was believed that until a couple of decades ago, the region that would become South Sudan overwhelmingly followed indigenous African religions, and that its conversion to Christianity went hand-in-hand with its liberation, much as East Timor's conversion to Catholic Christianity played a role in that country gaining independence from a much larger Islamic power, Indonesia. In any event, the liberation of South Sudan means the Sudanese government has lost about a third of its country, and most of the oil revenue. For the wider Arab Islamic world, it means an area the size of France is no longer Arab or Muslim territory. Considering the ongoing rebellion in Darfur (a Muslim but not Arab region in the western part of the country, not South Sudan), the prospects for the government in Khartoum are not looking very good. The South Sudanese speak many African languages (mostly from the Nilo-Saharan family, but with a few Niger-Congo languages mixed in), but historically used English and Arabic for business. With the secession from Sudan in the north, the government has plans to change the official language used to English only, and there are plans to move the capital from Juba to another city, but as of this writing, nothing is final.
- South Sudan, more commonly known in the outside world as "Mordor", is a country in Africa. It is barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust. Where the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. It is famous worldwide for its appearances on Oxfam television adverts, in which the South Sudanese seem perplexed because the seeds they plant refuse to grow. The South Sudanese refuse to accept that seeds will not grow in a desert, they require fertile land in order to grow, and South Sudan has no fertile land. The South Sudanese are also convinced that they are currently suffering from a drought, in reality however they are experiencing their normal amount of rainfall. Unfortunately their normal amount of rainfall is 0 mm. Psychologists have identified this misplaced belief as a "Mass Cultural Delusion". South Sudan is also notable for being the country where the really black people come from. These people are variously described as, "ridiculously black", "blacker than black", "blacker than darkest night", "literally as black as the colour black", and "black as coal". Scientific studies have revealed that these people are so black that they make entire rooms appear darker, by absorbing the surrounding light.
- South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a country in central Africa that borders Darfour and Sudan in the north, Ethiopia in the east, Kenya, Uganda and Congo in the south and the Central African Republic in the west. Its capital is Juba.
- It might have a communist side in the civil war and become a Marxist-Leninist Socialist Republic.
- South Sudan has one of the lowest rates of literacy in the World, the people give high priority to Education but lack of Economic development, the after effects of the civil war and continued conflict with Sudan limit what can be done at least for now. Fresh civil war has broken out.
- South Sudan (i/ˌsaʊθ suːˈdæn/ or /suːˈdɑːn/), officially the Republic of South Sudan and previously known as Southern Sudan, is a landlocked country in east-central Africa[8] that is part of the United Nations subregion of Eastern Africa. Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city. The capital city is planned to be changed to the more centrally located Ramciel in the future. South Sudan is bordered by the Republic of Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and the Central African Republic to the west The Wikipedia page is [1]
- LONDON -- Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labor camp. Now he will get to run at the 2012 Olympics. Marial's heartwarming rise from a fearful kid who hid in a cave, fled his war-torn homeland and finally arrived in the United States as a refugee took another incredible turn in July 2012. Despite having no passport and officially no country – and at one time very little hope – the 28-year-old marathoner was cleared by the IOC to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag. "The voice of has been heard," Marial told The Associated Press from his home in Flagtaff, Ariz. "The South Sudan has finally got a spot in the world community. Even though I will not carry their flag in this Olympic Games, the country itself is there. "The dream has come true. The hope of South Sudan is alive." Marial – who was born in what is now South Sudan, a newly independent African country that doesn't yet have a national Olympic body – was one of four competitors let in at the London Games as independent athletes. Three others from Netherlands Antilles (also known as ) File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles.svg also were allowed to take part under the Olympic flag, but the case of Marial was the first of its kind at the Olympics, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "He's actually running times I'm told wouldn't get him a medal but could get him in the top 10 to 20," Adams said. "He's come from out of nowhere. He's done two times, one of 2:14 and one of 2:12. Amazing." Marial posted the Olympic qualifying time in his first ever marathon last year after being a cross-country runner at Iowa State University. He will get a chance to test himself against the best in the world in the Olympic marathon on Aug. 12, the last day of the games. But Marial has less than a week to get to London so he can march at the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium and be part of the first day. "I think they (his entourage and backers in the U.S.) will move heaven and earth for him to get here for the ceremony," Adams said. The IOC's executive board gave Marial a chance after he didn't qualify for Sudan, South Sudan or the United States under its rules. He's a permanent resident of the U.S. after arriving as a refugee when he was a kid, but doesn't yet have American citizenship. He was ready to head out to train when he heard he could go to the Olympics. "I was getting ready to go for a run," Marial said. "Wow. This is so exciting. It's hard to describe. I'm speechless. The body temperature is up. I have to train like an Olympian now." He told AP he didn't want to represent Sudan because he lost 28 family members to violence or disease during the civil unrest that left the country devastated and eventually led to the south splitting from Sudan last year. Marial said he'd ask his father – who still lives in South Sudan – to travel to the nearest city to watch him on TV if he got to compete at the Olympics. Two decades ago, Marial escaped from the labor camp in Sudan when he was 8, running away under darkness with another child about a week after he was kidnapped by gunmen and forced to work. The pair hid in a cave until dawn, he said, and then followed the path of the sun. Marial lived in Egypt before eventually reaching the United States. "I used to hate running. I was running back home to save my life," he told the AP in an interview Friday. But he was good at it, grew to like it, and now loves it. At 16, Marial joined the Concord High School track team in New Hampshire after encouragement from a gym teacher who saw he never got winded during any sports activities. "I think there's something that can make you tired," he said the teacher told him. He earned an athletic scholarship to Iowa State, becoming an All-American in cross-country in his junior year. Marial qualified, amazingly, for the Olympics in his first 26.2-mile event, running 2 hours, 14 minutes, 32 seconds at the 2011 Twin Cities marathon – inside the Olympic qualifying time. He has since run faster. But despite obvious natural ability, he still needed help to go to the Olympics. On Friday, a U.S. senator from New Hampshire lent support to his bid. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee appealing for Marial to compete under the Olympic flag. "When you hear about his amazing personal story, what he has overcome, you just feel like the Olympic committee ought to look at his situation and figure out a way to accommodate him," Shaheen said. They did, and Marial can now run at the Olympics in London – and run as fast as he can for the right reasons.
- The flag of South Sudan is an equal horizontal tricolour of black, red, and green, with a blue pile superimposed with a yellow 5-pointed star.
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