The fireworks all around and the new waving flag from the windows of all individuals rise high as the world’s newest country SOUTH SUDAN celebrates its independence day last night.

It was a long awaited day said the crowd. The independence of south Sudan comes exactly after six months referendum. The city stands its mark in a countdown clock next to the city which read “free at last”.

The reaction came all over as we have struggled for a long time and today we are free, nobody else can imagine how we all fell now.  There was a great celebration in Juba.

For decades, southern rebels fought two wars with the successive governments of Khartoum for recognition and greater autonomy, and this conflict took millions life and left the south in ruins. There was a peace agreement signed in 2005 which stopped the war between the two countries.

North Sudan Khartoum government was the first to recognize the new state, as hours after the Africa’s largest country split. The recognition did not scatter the future tensions.

The leaders have still not agreed on the list of sensitive issues and the most important the exact line of borders. The main area of disputes between the Northern and Southern leaders arises how to handle oil revenues, their heart of both the economies.

The officials said that the birth of the new nation will take place from July 8 to 9, and will be followed by the formal independence ceremony later on Saturday.

The UN secretary general, Ban ki-Moon said, in JUBA last night “I believe that South Sudan will soon join the global body. Southern parliamentary speaker James Wani Igga at 11:45 a.m. (0845 GMT) will read the Proclamation of the Independence of South Sudan.

The UN Security Council voted on Friday to establish a new mission UNMISS for the South Sudan with civil police and about 7500 U.N. peacekeeper.

Crowd cheer high as world newest country marks its independence

Report by Kushal Kumar