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Sunday, July 9, 2017 - 16:15
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 as the outcome of a 2005 peace agreement that ended Africa's longest-running civil war. Independence did not bring conflict in South Sudan to an end. Currently, more than 3.5 million people have been displaced and 7.5 million need emergency aid as a result of South Sudan’s three-year-old civil conflict. Oil revenues have declined, farming and business activities have halted in many areas, and inflation has soared. The number of people classified as “severely food insecure” is expected to reach 5.5 million by July 2017, and more than 1 million children are acutely malnourished. The world’s youngest country is now on the brink of mass starvation.
(U.N. Development Report, May 2017)
Friends in Solidarity (www.solidarityfriends.org) has prepared a prayer in commonoration of the July 9th Independence Day for South Sudan. Find the prayer at:
ttps://www.solidarityfriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Prayerindependenced...
ttps://www.solidarityfriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Prayerindependenced...
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Day of Independence
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