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Free at last Free at last \u00a0were the words uttered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in his march to freedom to liberate his people from institutionalised \u00a0segregation. But when it come about South Sudan \u00a0they just coming out of institutionalized slavery.<\/p>\n

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South Sudan became free at last from slavery on early Saturday, officially winning its independence from century old hegemony of the northern slave traders starting a successful insurgency in early 1950’s. The culmination of a January independence vote guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal that ended the most recent north-south war. . This is a day that many Sudanese must have thought would never come when it was almost immediately threatened by the death of the south’s leader, and Sudanese vice-president,\u00a0John Garang<\/a>, in a helicopter crash.\u00a0 As they say “Independence is an event, but it is also a process, slow and fraught with danger”. The problems of Abyie,Southern Kordofan and Blu Nile \u00a0 are still hanging , though the Sudanese leader Bashir \u00a0was\u00a0 forced to\u00a0\u00a0 accept \u00a0the independence that \u00a0he did not say his last words.<\/p>\n

Most of the over 40 ethnic \u00a0groups are now armed by the enemy now a partner of the illusive \u00a0peace, the Northern\u00a0 slave master \u00a0\u00a0the genocidal Omar Bashir. Thus, \u00a0Juba the southern capital is just facing \u00a0only the end of the beginning, and the future is a very uncertain place.<\/p>\n

The North already started seeding the grains\u00a0 discord among the different Ethnic groups\u00a0 and clans worth than Somalia. The internal dissention\u00a0 according the live \u00a0murmuring is \u00a0that “the \u00a0Dinka majority has grasped such levers of power as exist \u2013 the government and the army \u2013 leaving the non-Dinka fifth of the population feeling shut out of senior positions and denied access to development funds.”<\/p>\n

The second discord\u00a0 successfully\u00a0 at work \u00a0declaring \u00a0that \u00a0” Despite promises made during the period of co-operation that secured the triumphant referendum result, proposals for a more federal structure of government that might lead to more geographically even development are beginning to look worthless. Juba is determined to stay in control. ”<\/p>\n

Southern Sudan has a worst time bomb set\u00a0\u00a0 to explode when their mutual enemy is 70 % out of the way tribalism, which is already working at maximum speed.<\/p>\n