Redrawing the Map

[Jacaylbaro]

On July 9, the world welcomed the independence of South Sudan and marked one of the more significant events in international geopolitics -- the creation of a new country. If, as expected, the new state is admitted for U.N. membership this week, it will become the body's 193rd member.

 

South Sudan's independence has caused some excited announcements that we are witnessing a "wave of self-determination" in the world, as Parag Khanna put it on this website in January. With entities like Palestine, South Ossetia, Somaliland, and Darfur pushing for sovereignty, Khanna writes, "Within a few decades, we could easily have 300 states in the world." Writing at the Atlantic, journalist G. Pascal Zachary sees South Sudanese independence as evidence that "the process of Africans inventing and discovering their own political boundaries has finally begun, after some 50 years of waiting."

 

 

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[NASSIR]

Puntland to be recognized first before "Somaliland".

[Jacaylbaro]

After they finish their assignments ....

[NASSIR]

What assignments?

 

 

"the process of Africans inventing and discovering their own political boundaries has finally begun, after some 50 years of waiting."

 

^That sums up and it helps if you have the prospect for a huge oil discovery.

[Jacaylbaro]

Assignments badan baa loo diray dee

[Abdul]

From somalia alone we might have 5 or maybe 6 regions who would like to be recognized as a 'country'

[xiinfaniin]

Jacayl ayyaamahan quus buu marayaa wallee, sidaan uma calool jilicsanaan jirin

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

The more countries the better.

[NASSIR]

xiinfaniin, JB knows how Puntland is outshining SL at the state and federal level.

[Jacaylbaro]

"the process of Africans inventing and discovering their own political boundaries has finally begun, after some 50 years of waiting."

Calool Jilayc dheh ,,,,

[Taleexi]

JB ma calool jilicsana ee waa smart - pragmatist ah. Dadkaaaga dhinac ka raax wallee XX belaa haysata mid mid baa looga hoos baxay.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Taleexi maalintu Jacaylbaro Koonfurianska raaco wa maalintu Popeku Muslimo

[Jacaylbaro]

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