Displaced people waited for rations from the World Food Program in Jonglei, South Sudan, Thursday. The Murle ethnic group was displaced in inter-communal violence.
A southern Sudanese man sings the new national anthem during a rally organized by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Juba on July 5, 2011, four days before South Sudan officially declares independence from the north.
A man waves South Sudan’s national flag as he attends the Independence Day celebrations in the capital Juba, July 9, 2011.
A Sudanese woman holds a cross as she prays during Sunday service in a church in Juba on January 16, 2011, one day after the historical week-long independence referendum vote ended. South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir urged his people to forgive the Muslim north for a devastating 1983-2005 war, as thousands flocked to church to give thanks for the landmark vote.
A young girl from the Taposa tribe in the southern Sudanese town of Kapoeta pauses February 4, 2011. The Taposa are a largely pastoral tribe in the southeast region of southern Sudan, which remains acutely underdeveloped and rife with banditry, land mines, tribal clashes, and general insecurity.
A South Sudanese soldier stood at attention during a parade rehearsal in Juba Thursday. The world’s newest nation will celebrate its independence Saturday in South Sudan’s capital, as the mainly ethnic African south officially breaks away from the Arab-dominated north.
A South Sudanese soldier played the trumpet during a parade rehearsal in Juba Thursday, two days before South Sudan is scheduled to formally secede from the north to become the world’s newest nation.
A soldier in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army stood in line Tuesday during a rehearsal for an Independence Day ceremony in Juba. South Sudan is expected to declare its independence on July 9.
