Southern Sudan: preparing for secession

South Sudan could become a United Nations member state quickly after seceding from the north. That’s according to a timetable presented by the U.N. Security Council's president this week, ahead of this Saturday’s formal secession of the South from the North. Although secession is being billed as the culmination of a peace process, fighting nevertheless continues in disputed regions. Philippa Hitchen spoke with Fr Joseph Marious, a religious priest who is originally from Juba and who has worked in the Nuba mountains.
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