Ending Africa's longest-running civil war, South Sudan got its independence from Sudan on 9 July 2011. Celebrations to be attended by renowned dignitaries, the event will witness U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and other leaders to assert "brotherly relations" among neighboring nations.

Owing to the 2005 peace deal to end bitter relations between a government dominated by Arab Muslims in the north against black Christians and animists in the south, a referendum was signed in favor of liberating South Sudan.

Killing 2 million and others to migrate to other countries, the civil has stretched lines between the South Sudan and North Sudan. The newly independent nation is said to have got bulk of Sudan's oil wealth, though the ongoing tussle with Khartoum could prove out to be a hindrance to the future development of the nation.

"They have schools and clean water, and their children are not dying of simple diseases", South Sudan native Moses Chol said, referring to the north. "In the south, people still drink stagnant water. They have nothing”.

Even though north had gained fair economic development, the south has a lot to face now as it’s on the way to new economic development.