As members of South Sudan’s parliament sat down this week in Juba, its new capital, to vote on a constitution to herald the birth of their new nation, the speaker’s first orders were for MPs to leave their weapons at the gate.
It was a sign of how, six years after a hard-won peace deal between Sudan’s warring north and south, the threat of violence remains ever present as the country prepares to split in two.
The new state to be born on Saturday from a civil war that claimed over 2m lives will emerge on a war footing, fragile, with few working institutions and, sceptics believe, a strong chance of failure.
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