One thing that I absolutely love about history and geography is that its always changing. Many students take for granted the way that the world is today. While many parts of the world have been inhabited for hundreds or thousands of years, the political boundaries that shape our world today have only been in place for a short time in most cases. Even if a country has been around for awhile, the border that surrounds it almost certainly has shifted at some point over the last century. And it has happened again! According to a recent feed from Aljazeera, South Sudan has declared independence and become its own country. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/20117820539243358.html
Sudan has been torn apart by civil war and unrest dating back several decades. Now it seems that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for those that live in the region. Of course, these transitions rarely go smoothly in the beginning and this may take several decades to really materialize, but it does provide some ray of hope for citizens. After all, many Sudanese citizens have been at war most or all of their lives. Certainly the slightest possibility for peace and stability would come as welcome news to those that live there.
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