ONE YEAR AFTER FREEDOM, SOUTH SUDAN IS IN A CRISIS

South Sudan rebel now President takes on poverty, graft July 08, 2012|By Pascal Fletcher | Reuters

(Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, who fought as a rebel chief in one of Africa's longest civil wars, has confronted those two old and deadly enemies of development - poverty and corruption - in his first year as head of the world's newest state. The guerrilla fighter turned president, who likes to wear wide-brimmed cowboy hats, has also faced persisting hostility from South Sudan's arch-foe to the north, Sudan, from whom it wrested independence last year after a secession vote that followed the end in 2005 of more than two decades of civil war. Ads by Google