The other Sudan

But even as the national flag of Sudan was lowered, replaced by the flag of the new republic, victims of clashes in South Kordofan and the Nuba Mountains were in mourning.

They may have started building the new nation, but South Sudan still has a list of conflicts longer than the Nile to resolve. South Sudan is the 193rd member state of the United Nations: poor and scarred by decades of conflict, it will have to prove itself quickly: failure to create a viable and economically independent South Sudan could destabilize the entire region, and question its legitimacy. Mass immigration from both sides has left many homeless and strangers on their own land.