Monday, February 7, 2011

SudSudan create the new state is a challenge to war and poverty

ROME - It is now official: it was born the 54th of Africa. It will be called SudSudan and was proclaimed by 98.83 per cent of the votes cast in the referendum a month ago. With a formal announcement that more substantial the president of Sudan, Omar el Bashir, has accepted the verdict and declared the birth of the new state.

But the problems, whether real, concrete, related to the management of power, are born right now. It will not be easy for a poor state, without infrastructure, forced to fight for half a century to repel the attacks of the army of the north, together with the separatist groups linked to Khartoum, start a recovery and rebalance wealth concentrated in few hands.

In a ceremony held in the capital of Sudan between smiles and handshakes with his former enemy and current interim president of SudSudan, Salva Kiir, President Bashir promised to respect and support for what has been decided by the people of the South 9 - January 15 last. Kiir wanted to strengthen the relationship between the two states has confirmed that 'North and South must build stronger relationship.

" Remain in the background, all the fears expressed by experts and international observers in recent weeks. The clashes have broken out on the ground between the forces of the armed forces of North and South, who refuse to surrender their weapons and move into the northern regions, are a worrying signal of what might happen in the coming months.

It is known that the birth of SudSudan will have a probationary period and that only on July 9 there will be the final announcement, after review of progress in the management of power and organization of the state. It remains to define the borders, the status of the oil region dell'Abyei, the distribution of oil revenues whose deposits are concentrated, to 90 percent in SudSudan.

The situation is still explosive: January 60 people have died. To these were added in just four days, another 50 victims killed in clashes between different factions of the army. E 'above the desperate situation in northern Darfur. Médecins sans frontières report back to the difficult humanitarian situation in the region, especially in the areas of Shangil, Tobaya, Dar Alsalam Tabit and where they are massed thousands of people with nothing.

The fighting between the government and opposition groups led to another mass exodus. "People are suddenly fled from the villages," MSF report, "could not take away anything except the clothes they wore. The referendum has drawn international media attention, but the Darfur continues to live in the diaspora always ".

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