A minister in South Sudan, the country will be divided from Sudan on 9 July, has been killed today in his office by a driver who has also killed a guard before taking his own life, according to a military spokesman said. In a referendum held on January 9, the south Sudanese massively approved the separation of Sudan and the creation of a new state, which will become a reality on 9 July.
"Minister of Rural Development and Cooperation, Jimmy Mile Lemi, was killed by a driver who worked at the Ministry. It has also killed a guard at the gate of the Ministry and then tripped," said Philip Aguer spokesman South Sudan army. The events have taken place in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan.
This is a blow to the first steps in July to be the youngest country in Africa, born of secession of the regime of Omar Hassan al Bashir, still president of the country. Following the referendum held in early January, on Monday, as expected, the results showed that an overwhelming majority of South Sudanese (98.83%) voted in the referendum for secession of the North.
Following the results, Al Bashir, accepted in a televised speech: "Today we received these results. We accept and respect them because they represent the will of the people of the south." And gave the green light to the partition of the country, giving rise, if all goes well, a state in southern animist-Catholic majority and a Muslim north.
On July 9, Southern Sudan will be the 54th country in Africa, while Sudan will be the largest country in Africa for Algeria (2,381,741 square kilometers). North and South Sudan have, since the country gained independence from Britain in 1956, resolving their differences with gunfire. Although the mother differed both territories, he decided to unite in the 40's and when independence was a fact, war broke out between the Muslim north and Christian-with its large presence of animist religions.
Less than a decade between 1972 and 1983, have been at war until 2005, a conflict that has claimed two million lives. Negotiations lie ahead in which the rock is natural resources, especially oil, which is mostly in the South. The North has the resources to exploit them. It is also the future of the central region of Abyei, also rich in resources, he has not decided which side to join: there must be decided in a referendum has not yet been concluded. 
"Minister of Rural Development and Cooperation, Jimmy Mile Lemi, was killed by a driver who worked at the Ministry. It has also killed a guard at the gate of the Ministry and then tripped," said Philip Aguer spokesman South Sudan army. The events have taken place in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan.
This is a blow to the first steps in July to be the youngest country in Africa, born of secession of the regime of Omar Hassan al Bashir, still president of the country. Following the referendum held in early January, on Monday, as expected, the results showed that an overwhelming majority of South Sudanese (98.83%) voted in the referendum for secession of the North.
Following the results, Al Bashir, accepted in a televised speech: "Today we received these results. We accept and respect them because they represent the will of the people of the south." And gave the green light to the partition of the country, giving rise, if all goes well, a state in southern animist-Catholic majority and a Muslim north.
On July 9, Southern Sudan will be the 54th country in Africa, while Sudan will be the largest country in Africa for Algeria (2,381,741 square kilometers). North and South Sudan have, since the country gained independence from Britain in 1956, resolving their differences with gunfire. Although the mother differed both territories, he decided to unite in the 40's and when independence was a fact, war broke out between the Muslim north and Christian-with its large presence of animist religions.
Less than a decade between 1972 and 1983, have been at war until 2005, a conflict that has claimed two million lives. Negotiations lie ahead in which the rock is natural resources, especially oil, which is mostly in the South. The North has the resources to exploit them. It is also the future of the central region of Abyei, also rich in resources, he has not decided which side to join: there must be decided in a referendum has not yet been concluded.
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