JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan celebrated its first day as an independent nation Saturday, raising its flag before tens of thousands of cheering citizens elated to reach the end of a 50-year ...

South Sudan celebrated its first day as an independent nation Saturday, raising its flag before tens of thousands of cheering citizens elated to reach the end of a 50-year struggle.

By James Okuk. January 17, 2011 — It shall be H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit to lower the Sudan flag and raise high our flag of the Republic of South Sudan on 9thJuly, 2011 at the Presidential ...

Today, the flag is being raised at U.N. Headquarters in New York for the new Republic of South Sudan. Five days after President Obama granted U.S. recognition of South Sudan, the U.N. General ...

South Sudan celebrated its first day as an independent nation Saturday, raising its flag before tens of thousands of cheering citizens elated to reach the end of a 50-year struggle. President ...

LONDON — South Sudan was not able to get Olympic recognition in time to field a team at the London Games. But the world’s newest nation has great hopes, and several impressive athletes ...

South Sudan is taking part in the Olympics for the first time and, of all people, K-pop star Kim Jang-hoon almost became the flag bearer for the young African country during the parade of nations ...

Because South Sudanese people across the world got to see their flag, their people, their likeness on a pedestal with legends. Omot was born in a refugee camp in Kenya in 1994, and he was the ...

South Sudan men's basketball, in its first Olympics, is defying the odds in Paris. ... “Gave me chills seeing the South Sudanese flags and my people here,” Maluach said.