The national anthem of South Sudan was composed in 2011 by students at the University of Juba to symbolize freedom and independence for South Sudan. It underwent a long struggle for autonomy from Sudan, culminating in independence in 2011 after decades of civil war. However, South Sudan has continued to face instability, as civil war broke out in 2013 between forces loyal to President Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar, resulting in millions displaced by the ongoing conflict.

3.  It was composed
by the University of
Juba Students from
the College of Arts,
Drama & Music.
It was composed
in 2011.
It symbolizes
freedom and
independence for
millions
Respecting the national anthem( coutersy
photo)

4. 1899-1955 - South
Sudan is part of Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan, under
joint British-Egyptian
rule.
1956 - Sudan gains
independence.

5.  1962 – A war between southern separatist
Anya Nya movement and north begins.
 Sudanese military officers led by Col Jaafar
Muhammad Numeiri seize power.
 1972-A peace agreement signed by
government in Addis Ababa, concedes a
measure of autonomy for Southern Sudan.
 1978 - Oil discovered in Unity State in
Southern Sudan.

6.  1983-Sudan President Jaafar Numeiri abolishes South Sudan's autonomy, war
breaks out as John Garang forms Sudanese People's Liberation Movement
(SPLM).
 1988 - Democratic Unionist Party - part of Sudan's ruling coalition
government - drafts cease-fire agreement with the SPLM, but it is not
implemented.
 1989 - Military seizes power in Sudan.
 2001-Memorandum of understanding was signed between Islamist leader
Hassan Al-Turabi's party and southern rebel SPLM's.
 2002- Agreement between southern rebels and Sudanese government on
ending the civil war in Kenya.

7.  2005 January - North/South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ends
civil war; deal provides for a permanent ceasefire, autonomy for the south, a
power-sharing government involving rebels in Khartoum and a south
Sudanese referendum on independence in six years' time.
 2005 july- rebel leader John Garang is sworn in as first vice-president and a
large degree of aut
 2005 August – South Sudan leader died in crane crush and Salva Kiir
Mayardiit succeeded him.
 2005 October - Autonomous government is formed in South Sudan, in line
with the January 2005 peace deal.
Peace Agreement signed in 2005 (courtesy photo)

8.  2006- Blood shed seen town of Malakal between northern Sudanese
forces and former rebels since the 2005 peace deal.
 2008 March - Tensions rise over clashes between an Arab militia
and SPLM in the disputed oil-rich Abyei area on the north-south
divide - a key sticking point in the 2005 peace accord.

 2009 July - North and south Sudan say they accept ruling by
arbitration court in The Hague shrinking disputed Abyei region and
placing the major Heglig oil field in the north.

9.  2009 December - Leaders of North and South reach deal on terms of
referendum on independence due in South by 2011.
 2011 January - The people of South Sudan vote in favor of full independence
from Sudan.
 2011 February - Clashes between the security forces and rebels in southern
Sudan's Jonglei state leave more than 100 dead.
 2011 May - North occupies disputed border region of Abyei.
 2011 June - Governments of north and south sign accord to demilitarize the
disputed Abyei region and let in an Ethiopian peacekeeping force.

10.  2011 9 July - Independence day.
 2011 August - UN says at least 600 people are killed in ethnic clashes in Jonglei
state.
 2012 January - South Sudan declares a disaster in Jonglei State after some
100,000 flee clashes between rival ethnic groups.
 South Sudan troops temporarily occupy the oil field and border town of Heglig
before being repulsed. Sudanese warplanes raid the Bentiu area in South Sudan.
Sudanese wave the flag of their new country in
the capital (COURTSEY PHOTO)

11.  2012 August - Some 200,000 refugees flee into South Sudan to escape
fighting between Sudanese army and rebels in Sudan's southern border
states.
 2012 September - The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan agree trade, oil
and security deals after days of talks in Ethiopia.
 2013 March - Sudan and South Sudan agree to resume pumping oil after a
bitter dispute over fees and agreed to withdraw troops from their border area
to create a demilitarized zone.
 2013 June - President Kiir dismisses Finance Minister Kosti Manibe and
Cabinet Affairs Minister Deng Alor over a multi-million dollar financial
scandal, and lifts their immunity from prosecution.
 2013 July - President Kiir dismisses entire cabinet and Vice-President Riek
Machar in a power struggle within the governing Sudan People's Liberation
Movement.

12. 2013 December - Salva Kiir accuses his
former vice-president, Riek Machar, of
plotting to overthrow him.
2014 January - A ceasefire is signed but
broken several times and talks in February
fail to end the violence.
2014 April - UN says pro-Machar forces
sack the oil town of Bentiu, killing hundreds
of civilians.
2014 August - Peace talks begin in
Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and drag on
for months as fighting continues.
2016 April - Riek Machar sworn in as first
vice-president in a new unity government
but was sucked in july.
rebel leader Riek Machar at an army barracks in
South Sudan's Upper Nile State (

13.  2016 November - Kenya withdraws its troops from the
peacekeeping mission.
 2016 December - A UN commission on human rights says ethnicity
is problem in south Sudan which President Salva Kiir denies.
 2017 February - A famine is declared which UN describes as a man-
made catastrophe.
 2017 May - President Kiir declares independent ceasefire, launches
national dialogue.

14.  2017 August - 4,000,000 million displaced,one million displaced internally
and 3million displaced to neighboring countries like Uganda, Congo
according to UNHRC.
 2018 July- president Slava Kiir and Riek Machar , opposition leader in Addis
Ababa to how they can bring peace back in south Sudan.
After two years of fight kiir and machar meets face to face

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