{"id":33949,"date":"2021-07-11T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/the-light-that-failed-south-sudans-new-dawn-turns-to-utter-nightmare"},"modified":"2021-07-11T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:15:36","slug":"the-light-that-failed-south-sudans-new-dawn-turns-to-utter-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33949","title":{"rendered":"The light that failed: South Sudan\u2019s \u2018new dawn\u2019 turns to utter nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 400,000 have died since it won independence 10 years ago. Now violence looms again, within and beyond its borders<\/p>\n<p>Independence isn\u2019t always what it\u2019s cracked up to be. Recent additions to the family of nations, such as Kosovo and East Timor (Timor-Leste), have struggled to find their feet. In 2017, Catalonia\u2019s secessionists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/11\/catalonias-suspended-declaration-of-independence-what-happens-next\" title=\"\">split their homeland in two<\/a>. Scottish referendum voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/sep\/09\/-sp-scottish-independence-everything-you-need-to-know-vote\" title=\"\">took a pass<\/a> in 2014. The uncomplicated glory days when \u201cthird world\u201d liberation movements ousted colonial regimes seem a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan, which marked its 10th birthday on Friday, came late to Africa\u2019s independence party \u2013 the product of a complex 2005 deal to end Sudan\u2019s decades-old civil war. Barack Obama, seeking the credit, waxed lyrical. \u201cToday is a reminder that after the darkness of war, the light of a new dawn is possible,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/11\/the-light-that-failed-south-sudans-new-dawn-turns-to-utter-nightmare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 400,000 have died since it won independence 10 years ago. Now violence looms again, within and beyond its bordersIndependence isn\u2019t always what it\u2019s cracked up to be. Recent additions to the family of nations, such as Kosovo and East Timor (Timo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,2242,2156,212,1943,404,664,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-darfur","category-ethiopia","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-sudan","category-sudan","category-timor-leste","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949\/revisions\/33950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}