Behold the new nation

[mahnmut]

Chances are high that a new African country will be born tomorrow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12136851

Southern Sudan will vote on independence on Sunday. Very likely they will achieve it; the North can't forge the votes because they don't control the South and in any case the South's government would forge the vote in favor of themselves

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[mahnmut]

Botswana is doing pretty good. They've got some diamonds and more importantly, some smart dudes who know how to use all this wealth for better purposes other than buying Ferraris and yachts. Probably because they don't have highways to drive on and seas to sail around.

[chasingtides]

Just as an FYI, plenty of Sudanese from the North are non-Arabic Africans as well.

[mahnmut]

True: they have Nubians, Zaghawas, Fur, Beja and some others.

[chasingtides]

Also, beyond looking like you're trying to create a racial divide between the North and South, you seemed to be carrying quite a bit of "nice-Christian-democracy" vs "bad-Muslim-Arabic-dictatorship-North" in this post.

[mahnmut]

It's not me who has created the racial divide that now exists in Sudan. Anyone who has heard a thing or two about that country would know what I mean.

Nice Christian democracy, huh? Is your lol-o-meter completely broken?

[dv8nation]

It'll be interesting to see what happens. But I don't have high hopes that the good times will last.

[underlankers]

Eh, the problems with African countries are deeper than this kind of thing would resolve. To me I hope that this country, like Botswana, proves everyone wrong and proves one of the most efficient post-colonial states imaginable. After a lengthy civil war and what that usually means for a new state.....I am not sure. In some ways if it ends up with a regime like that of Egypt that's better than ending up with one like Zimbabwe, as at least the Egyptian dictators *can* govern after a fashion.

[enders_shadow]

TIA?