South Sudan Celebrates Its Founding Anniversary

A man holds South Sudanese flags as he prepares to dance at the country’s anniversary celebrations, at the John Garang mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Monday, July 9, 2012. The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is celebrating its first birthday and while the largest achievement over the last year was avoiding a return to all-out war with Sudan, the south has seen its economy crippled after it shut down its oil industry and thousands of refugees are streaming into the country every week to avoid violence on Sudan’s side of the border. <AP/NEWSis>

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