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South Sudan became the world's country on July the 9th as it its independence. There was a atmosphere in the capital Juba as thousands waved their new flag and sang their freshly-penned anthem. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and 30 African of state attended the celebrations. The world’s 193rd nation has a long ahead. It is almost the size of the American state of Texas but has only 150 kilometers of roads. It also has an illiteracy of 85 per cent and half of the country’s 8 million people live on than $1 a day. However, people are of hope; they have a soccer and basketball team that have already started practising for the 2012 Olympic games.

The people of South Sudan, Christian, have been fighting the Arab north for six . The Sudanese government fought a army from the south in the first civil war from 1955 to 1972. In 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army and fought in the Second Sudanese Civil War for almost twenty-one years. Over 2.5 million people died in the and more than 5 million have become refugees in their own or in neighbouring countries. In January 2011, 98.83 per cent of the south’s population for independence from Sudan, paving the for nationhood. There are no official separating South Sudan from Sudan and the two countries are locked in a dispute over the rights to oil revenues.