Why South Sudan became Independent

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The years after Christ, Sudan was called Nubia and was Christian. Later Islam came to Egypt and from Egypt more and more Muslims started to move to Nubia. These people didnt come to work or to get shelter or to create a good life together with the Christian inhabitant of Nubia. The Muslims invaded villages and took over them completly or in some cases partly. Many Churches became Mosques. Around the 15th Centry the majority of the northern parts were Muslim and the state changed eventually its name, its face, its faith, its language and its identity. The Christians continued to have a majority in the southern parts while Muslim took over the north.

In 1956 the state got independent from the west and a new era was suppose to start. Muslims and Christians were supposed to work together to build a unified country. The capital got to be in the Muslim north and soon the Christians realized that all investments from this new state were going to the north. Sudan had then 9 countries around its borders and the strongest of them were Muslim ruled supporting the regime in the capital.

In 1962 a civil war started because of the economic injustice of the north and the will of the capital to arabize and islamize the whole country. In 1974 oil was founded, mainly in the southern regions and this didnt benefit those regions but only went to the wellness of the Muslim north. Many peace accords were reached now and then but in 1983 a new war broke out. This was after the law from the capital Khartoum to make the islamic sharia laws implemented over all territories. During the war many died, most from the south because of the lack of military training and equipments. Many children were taken as slaves to rich Muslim families in the north when Christian villages were burnd.

In 2001, 15000 Christian slaves were freed with the help of the south sudanese army and many international organisations that often paid to free those people. In 2002 a peace accord was signed between the official army governed from the capital and the SPLM/SPLA militias ruled from the south. South Sudan reached later a better deal with a real independence from the north, that occured in 2011.

Congratulations to all the Nubians in south Sudan that today have their own country. Hopefully the name Nubia can come back and give name to this new country.