with access to the most basic human needs from shelter to water, and health to education.
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* By 2005 with the addition to the conflicts in Darfur, Sudan was reported to have
an excess of at least five million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
* The only time out of independence in which Southern Sudan experienced any type of
peace was between 1972-1983.
* Isolation and instability have dominated Southern Sudan since independence in 1956.
* Population: 11,000,000 (2007)
* Birth rate: 50.5/1000 (2004)
* Access to clean water: 27%
* Access to safe sanitation: 15%
* Primary completion rate: 2%
* Trained teachers: 6%
* Since gaining independence from colonialism in 1956, the people of South Sudan have
experienced nothing but war and discrimination by northern-based government.
* The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 has given the Southern Sudanese a
chance of becoming an independent state and country.
* Gaining independence in 1956, did not mean anything for South Sudan and its people as
they simple remained a colonial state with only one change, the master to whom they
belonged.
* Sudan has seen marginalisation of the south through lack of representation and discrimi-
nation through all possible sectors. Most socio-economic development projects have
been based and established in the Northern cities, Islamic and Arabic values and been
forced upon the people of South Sudan.
* Declaring the country as an Islamic state also lead to the marginalisation of non-Islamic
citizens as inferior third-class citizens.
* Throughout the history of Sudan, the civil war has caused the country, many problems
ranging from mass displacement to massive underdevelopment. The problems South
Sudan faced before the CPA in 2005.
* Indiscriminate bombings and raiding of civil population centres leading to massive
displacement of people from their homes.
* Denial of basic human needs and the use of food as a weapon of conversion to the
Islamic religion.
* Forced Islamisation and Arabisation of the educational system in the south in an attempt
to kill indigenous languages and cultures.
* Political executions and holding in detentions without trials.
* Disappearance of south Sudanese in government controlled towns.
* Reintroduction of slavery and the slave trade during the cival war.