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South Sudan
Population: 8 mn.
GDP: n/a
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The government will struggle to meet aspirations and rebuild the war-shattered economy. Tensions on the undemarcated border and disputes over oil threaten further conflict with Sudan, underlining the need for a new corridor to the Indian Ocean.

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  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Sanctions threat drives talks

Juba scrambles to regain the diplomatic initiative ahead of a new round of talks on oil and security with Khartoum

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

All or nothing

Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

A political and military test

Church peacemakers and SPLA troops try to end a complex conflict

  • Vol 53 No 8
  •  13th April 2012

War drums sound as the South takes Heglig

Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

The South goes for sovereignty

Juba turns off the oil and turns up the pressure in its fraught negotiations with Khartoum over oil, cash, security and citizenship

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Who pays the pipeline

Whatever the outcome of the oil talks between the Khartoum and Juba governments, the current crisis has focused thinking on southward leading pipelines. Industry and diplomatic opinion is divided but there is a growing view that at least one line is comme...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Rough roads ahead

The problems of a new state plague South Sudan but the biggest challenges are from the old state to the north. South Sudan and north Sudan now celebrate Independence in different halves of the year but they are still locked together and will remain so, at...

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Implausible denials

As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Questions facing the new regime

After seven weeks of negotiation, Salva appoints the first independent government amid concern about accountability and national cohesion

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Death in Jonglei

The biggest challenge for the new Juba government – and for many Southerners – is violence in some areas. Jonglei State in Greater Upper Nile is especially troubled and there is concern about neighbouring, oil-producing Unity State (the only state with no...

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