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

Comments

[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?

[htpcl]

As far as I could notice he argues that the south won't be any different from the north, so I'm at a loss where you saw this nice-Christian-democracy vs bad-Muslim-Arabic-dictatorship-North thing. The way I read it it was all about bad-corrupt-North vs bad-corrupt-South, i.e. nothing changes. Actually wait, he said it. Several times.

[mahnmut]

The South will probably be even worse than the North. And not because it's Christian, black, or anything. The reasons are economic and social.

Do you notice a pattern here?

[luvdovz]

I think you should read the post once more. Or better yet, twice.

[underlankers]

Sounds to me like he's talking about a Korea in the mid-50s scenario where both sides are run by unpleasant, corrupt, nasty sonsobitches who Aren't So Different from each other.