“Born to be Wild”
– South Sudan after the Independence
András István Türke
CERPESC 18/AF/07/2025 – 09 January 2025
Before 2011, until the declaration of independence of the Republic of South-Sudan (Juba), Sudan was the largest country in Africa and the seventh most populous. It was ruled by General Omar al-Bashir between 1989-2019. This analysis seeks to answer the basic questions how has the South Sudan issue been handled by Khartoum since Sudan’s independence in 1956? And how has South Sudan’s political life changed since the proclamation of independence on 9 July 2011? Has the long-awaited peace and economic prosperity arrived? Is it really Khartoum who has been the only one who has interfered the development of this region? Or maybe the first 14 years of the new state weren’t such a success story after all? How did the cooperation between the former allies develop? Did local conflicts develop over the oil reserves? And finally, how did the relationship with neighboring Sudan develop?
