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On Saturday, southern Sudan becomes a free and independent. It is a well-deserved victory for his people. In 2005 US-backed political agreement that ended two decades of civil war, the people of the Christian majority territory voted overwhelmingly in January to separate from the Arab Muslim north.

However, the celebrations in the capital, Juba, can not hide a sad reality: building a functional new country will take decades of hard work. The responsibility lies mainly in the south of Sudan but also in the United States and the international community that served as a guide.

54th state of Africa is at the bottom of the developing countries. Most people live on less than $ 1 a day. More than 10 percent of children reach the age of 5 years. About 75 percent of adults can not read.

Meanwhile, the bitter disputes between North and South are fed into a land of chaos and bloody two million deaths in the Civil War. Sudan on Friday became the first state to recognize southern Sudan. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, author of the bloody war in Darfur, said that attending the festivities in Juba. But he also said he would continue the fight that broke out last month against forces loyal to southern South Kordofan, a region rich in oil, still under the control of Khartoum. Mr. Bashir's decision to withdraw United Nations peacekeepers in South Kordofan is deeply worrying.

The main elements of the 2005 peace agreement have not been resolved - and which side will control the oil region of Abyei, where fighting has broken out, the protection of the citizens of minorities, where the final borders will be established as oil revenues will be shared (the south has 70 percent of reserves).

The two parties are dependent on each other. Southern Sudan needs to pipe North Korea for its oil in the market. Sudan needs the oil money to help pay their bills. Both investment for national security and the north of the debt relief needs. They have a better chance of winning international support if they are alone.

As an incentive, the United States and its partners have offered to host an international conference in September for the southern Sudan. That will allow the leaders of Southern Sudan to present their plans to encourage private investment are desperately needed. Juba Washington gave $ 300 million for education and housing is more promising. International assistance should continue only if South Sudan to work constructively with Khartoum to bring stability to both countries.

The Obama rightly Sudan is not taking its terrorism list and normalize relations until it complies with the Khartoum peace agreement and end the conflict in Darfur. China, the main investor in Sudan's oil and arms supplier, to deliver a similar message to Mr. Bashir, who is under indictment for war crimes, rather than receive it with great fanfare in Beijing and promised new oil agreements. The international community should persuade both sides to avoid war and work to build a future for both Sudans.

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