South Sudan: Dashed hopes after 10 years of independence
South Sudan s 10 years as an independent country have been marked by pervasive insecurity, a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and endemic corruption.
South Sudan split from Sudan in 2011
The euphoria following South Sudan s independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 was short-lived.
Less than a year and a half later, the resource-rich country was plunged into a brutal civil war, at a cost of almost 400,000 lives.
As a result of the civil war, 1.6 million people of the country s 11 million people are currently displaced within South Sudan while more than 2 million South Sudanese have sought refuge in other nations.
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