UN Mission Warns Of Economic, Refugee Crises In South Sudan -- Voice of AmericaNAIROBI — On Monday, South Sudan will celebrate its one-year anniversary as an independent nation. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan was given a one-year mandate to ensure the protection of civilians, help with peace consolidation, and assist in state building. Hilde Johnson, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative in South Sudan, met with reporters Thursday and discussed her observations of the country's and mission’s first year.
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement was intended to end the second Sudanese civil war, develop democratic governance, and force the sharing of oil revenues on an equitable basis. It also required a referendum by which the people of southern Sudan could decide their future.
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