• South Sudan is finally able to do things we take for granted. For instance, they played their first soccer game on Sunday evening. The other big thing is that they’re getting their own currency now. The South Sudan pound is going to have a picture of John Garang on it — he was a key player in South Sudan’s long and bloody quest to becoming an independent nation. They’ve actually had problems because their new currency wasn’t implemented sooner. It was difficult to pay salaries, since there hasn’t been any native currency to pay them with. It’s one of many problems facing the young nation. Luckily, this particular problem may soon go away. source

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