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Sunday July 11 2021
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On Friday, July 9, the government and people of the Republic of South Sudan marked the 10th anniversary of independence. There was frankly nothing to celebrate. It is not yet uhuru.
Ten years ago on Saturday, July 9, 2011, a ceremony was held at Juba’s mausoleum for John Garang, a pan-Africanist and great leader of the people of South Sudan, at which the speaker of the South Sudan Legislative Assembly, James Wani Igga, read out the Proclamation of Independence.
Thousands of jubilant people, including foreign heads of state and other dignitaries, witnessed as Sudan’s national flag was lowered and the new flag of the Republic of South Sudan was raised while a military band played the national anthem of South Sudan.