South Sudan • UE Unione Europea • Juba • Sud Sudan Nuova Nazione in Africa (Sa 09 July 2011) Happy Indipendence Day Republic of South Sudan

Juba • Capitale Sud Sudan • Nuova Nazione in Africa (Sa 09 July 2011) Happy Indipendence Day Republic of South Sudan

• con la presenza di numerose delegazioni straniere - proclamata la Repubblica del Sud Sudan - nata una Nuova Nazione - la piω giovane del mondo - 54° Stato del Continente Africa.

• Evento sottolineato dalla Comunitΰ internazionale, il Presidente Usa Obama si felicita con i sudanesi del sud annunciando l’ufficiale riconoscimento americano del nuovo Paese.

• Lo stesso hanno fatto ITALIA ed UE (UNIONE EUROPEA), ed entro pochi giorni il Sud Sudan sarΰ il 193° membro dell’Onu.

• Sud SUDAN con popolazione a maggioranza cristiana si θ cosμ separato dal Nord SUDAN musulmano dopo decenni di conflitto, costati la vita a milioni di persone.

• Durante la cerimonia i militari hanno sfilato davanti ai dignitari seduti nella tribuna di onore, tra cui il Presidente del nord Sudan Omar al Bashir, contro cui la Corte Penale internaz dell’Aja ha spiccato mandato di arresto per crimini di guerra e contro l’Umanitΰ e per genocidio in Darfur, regione occidentale del Paese.

• Alla cerimonia presenti il Segretario generale dell’Onu, Ban Ki-moon, Ambasciatore Usa alle Nazioni Unite, Susan Rice, per l’Italia, il Sottosegretario agli Esteri, Alfredo Mantica.

La dichiarazione di indipendenza del Sud Sudan chiude una lunga e tormentata stagione di conflitti armati con Khartum, che per anni ha osteggiato le aspirazioni indipendentiste della Regione che detiene i 3/4 quarti dei giacimenti petroliferi nazionali.

La loro gestione resta uno dei principali nodi che il nuovo Stato dovrΰ affrontare, e sul quale si giocano i destini dei 2 Paesi le cui economie, entrambe fondate sull’oro nero, restano strettamente interdipendenti: se il Sud θ ricco di petrolio, θ il Nord ad avere raffinerie e oleodotti per la sua commercializzazione.

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KHARTOUM - JUBA - For thousands of southern Sudanese it was a night to stay out dancing to welcome the birth of their new nation.
For people in the northern capital Khartoum it was a time of sadness mixed with defiance.

South Sudan, where most follow Christian and traditional beliefs, became independent on Saturday after a January referendum agreed under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the Arab Muslim north.

While the south rejoiced at finally getting its freedom from the dominant north, for people in Khartoum the secession brought not only the loss of a third of the territory and much of the country's oil resources but also a profound feeling of sadness.

//////// I am happy for their independence, and I believe that it will benefit them, and their future, street artist Yaser Idriss said, sitting by a road near the Nile in the northern capital.

At the same time however, I am sad at the fact that I feel like a part of me has been severed, contrary to my convictions, he said.

Fellow artist Mohammed Maheyeddin agreed, wondering: - Are we going to be artistically split as well? Am I now able to draw a southern woman or not? Is she still a symbol of my heritage or not?

Today (9 JULY 2011) I drew a drawing I named - Separation - which depicts a southern woman walking off into the distance, leaving behind all of her memories.

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Others in Khartoum were defiant, insisting the north - where 80 percent of the 40 million Sudanese live - was a better place without the south with which it fought for too long.

It's the best solution for all that they became independent. We are too different, we have a different religion, a different culture, - said Saleh Ahmed Ali, a high school teacher.

- We dont want war, - he said, while behind him a dozen of northerners danced at a party organised by a Khartoum pro-secession group called - Just Peace Movement - to celebrate what they called the - real independence - of the north.

- Sudan's unity was a mistake as history has proven.
Now we can go our own way and don't need to listen to the needs of the south, said El-Tayyib Mustafa, the group's head.

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