Today a BBC Debate in Juba – RSS: Has independence lived up to your expectations?
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South Sudan At One – Has Independence Lived Up to Expectations?
AllAfrica.com – By Rachael Akidi, 29 June 2012 When the people of South Sudan went to a referendum in January last year to decide on whether to split from Sudan, the result was decisive. Nearly 99% voted in favor of independence. After decades of instability, …
Viewpoint: South Sudan has not lived up to the hype
BBC News–As South Sudan prepares to celebrate the first anniversary of its independence, blogger PaanLuel Wel discusses whether the world’s newest country has lived up to the hopes of a year ago…
AllAfrica.com –By Makol Bona Malwal, 28 June 2012 The problems facing the new nation are the product of non-existent or underdeveloped state institutions, themselves the product of the current system’s failure to redefine itself from a liberation movement to a ruling …
I was privileged to be there so as to see with my own eyes and hear with my two ears. However, it turned out to be a pre-cooked debate that was meant to portray South Sudan as SPLM and SPLM as South Sudan. Why? The panelists were all SPLM’s party members led by their Deputy SG, Anne Itto. The opposition was not allowed to appear in the panel despite the protest in the beginning. The members of the audience who spoke were handpicked by the bias Kenyan and a retired BBC journalist called Joseph Murungi. It was after protest and pressure that he gave the leader of the Minority in the SSLA a very limited chance to talk.
BBC Africa Debate: South Sudan – Has independence met expectations?
In South Sudan – one year on from the country’s independence – the former BBC’s African News and Current Affairs editor Joseph Warungu chairs a debate on whether expectations have been met. The Republic of South Sudan officially declared its independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011. Following decades of conflict, hopes were high and the celebrations momentous.
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