Southern Sudan - The All Say "Yes!"

"The preliminary official results from southern Sudan’s independence vote prove unsurprising to Sudan-watchers. Figures posted over the weekend on the referendum commission’s website show that more than 99 percent of voters in the south’s plebiscite want secession for their oil-rich but everything-else-poor homeland."

From The Economist Blog Baobab

Still no name. Flag anyone?

The Sudan: Juba Boom Town

"New restaurants and bars are sprouting up everywhere. Government ministers (many of whom have swapped their uniforms for sharp business suits) like to go to Da Vinci, an Italian eatery on the banks of the Nile. Foreign aid workers prefer Logali House, known for its fast internet access. East Africans gather at Home & Away for Thai food. Ukrainian and Russian pilots can be found at Oasis Camp and Sudanese hipsters, many of them returning from abroad, go to Havana, a bar set up by some of the so-called Cuban Jubans, a group of south Sudanese who went off to see Fidel a few decades ago and are drifting back now."

Love the Cuban Jubans and the Havana Bar.

But will some please tell what they will name the place? Southern Sudan is so bland. Get inspired from those Cuban Jubans!

From The Economist Blog Baobab

Boom town

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