The lie of the land: Mapping the borders of South Sudan has been fraught with difficulty (The Independent)
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Six months before South Sudan officially declared its independence, becoming the world’s newest nation on 9 July, eight people met in an unremarkable boardroom in Glasgow over tea and biscuits to plot one of this fledgling country’s most defining features – its borders.
Setting up a country is no mean feat. The new currency, the South Sudan pound, was unveiled at banks across its capital, Juba, this week. The national anthem, written by competition winners who now ascribe to the new nationality of South Sudanese, is being learnt in classrooms across the country. (...)
