Every Globe & Map just became obsolete.. South Sudan is free

[guyver01]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43694959/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/?GT1=43001

'Free at last': South Sudan is world's newest nation

Saturday meant that South Sudan and its black tribesmen would for the first time be linked politically with sub-Saharan Africa.

Kenya and Uganda are already laying strong economic ties with their northern neighbor, an oil-rich country that may one day ship its oil to a Kenyan port, instead of through the pipelines controlled by Khartoum.

"From today our identity is southern and African, not Arabic and Muslim," read a hand-painted sign that one man carried as he walked through the crowds.

South Sudan first celebrated its new status with a a raucous street party at midnight. At a packed midday ceremony, the speaker of parliament read a proclamation of independence as the flag of Sudan was lowered and the flag of South Sudan was raised, sparking wild cheers from a crowd tens of thousands strong.

"Hallelujah!" one resident yelled, as other onlookers wiped away tears.

The U.S. and Britain, among others, announced their recognition of South Sudan as a sovereign nation.

 

[zinfamous]

man, fuck this shit. Now how are all those poor uneducated kids in the Iraqs going to figure out geography?

well, at least they didn't have any maps to begin with. 🙂

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i give them a month before civil war divides them into southwest and southeast sudan

 

[SandEagle]

nm

 

[SandEagle]

 

[Jumpem]

Good for them for telling the muslims to get lost.

 

[Farang]

I would've gone for "Kramerica"

 

[SKORPI0]

Interesting..... :sneaky:

Sudan is generally considered to hold significant oil and gas reserves, much of which is believed to be located in the southern part of the country. Due to Sudan’s civil war which commenced in the late 1970’s, much of southern Sudan remained unexplored and southern Sudan is now considered to be one of the few major unexplored oil and gas regions in the world.

Published reports indicate that Sudan’s existing oil reserves are estimated at approximately 1.2 billion barrels with recoverable reserves estimated at greater than 800 million barrels. Southern Sudan is also rich in natural gas with current estimated reserves of 3 trillion cubic feet (3 tcf). Sudan currently produces approximately 350,000 barrels of oil per day and although it has been an oil producer for a number of years, the country, particularly Southern Sudan is considered to be vastly under-explored due to civil unrest. It is generally believed that the country holds significant oil resource potential, as evidenced by the fact that Sudan was recently granted observer status at OPEC. The estimated undiscovered original oil in place reserves in the explored parts of Southern Sudan are believed to be in excess of 10 billion barrels.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Sudanese Civil War Part II, anyone?

 

[Braznor]

This collective brand of ragtag people has done what America, Europe and Asia couldn't do.

Give Arabs the finger.

I salute them.

 

[zinfamous]

This collective brand of ragtag people has done what America, Europe and Asia couldn't do.

Give Arabs the finger.

I salute them.

Arabs?

:hmm:

 

[iGas]

i give them a month before civil war divides them into southwest and southeast sudan

Perhaps, but civil war can be quell by Western army and weapons. Eritrea is a neighbor that had 30 years of civil war for a 60 years old country.

I have been following the dynamic development in Sudan for a while now, and IMHO South Sudan got it dependence is due to Western greed and in fluent. I thought the Sudanese learned from Western countries recent meddling in Indonesia and Timor, but it seemed that they didn't (Timor is much poorer now than before because they didn't find the oil that supposedly there after independence).

The majority of the oil fields are in South Sudan.

 

[iGas]

Oil companies accused of helping to fuel Sudan war crimes

Three oil companies were last week accused of being complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan. A report published in Sweden by a group of charities and peace activists called for Swedish oil company Lundin, Petronas of Malaysia and OMV of Austria to be investigated by their national governments.

The trio, led by Lundin, operated in a consortium and in 1997 signed a contract to extract oil in a territory known as Block 5A, which was not then under the full control of the Sudanese government. The report, by the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan (ECOS), says the start of oil exploitation set off a vicious war in the area, and that between 1997 and 2003 large-scale crimes were committed as the government attempted to secure control...