Their day in the sun

THE South Sudanese minister of information, Barnaba Marial, wells up at the thought of independence for his nation. It is bigger than his wedding day, he says; the biggest day of his life. For Mr Marial, and for most of his countrymen, the journey of two wars, 2m dead, starting with an uprising in the town of Torit in 1955, is a biblical march of a chosen people out of the steppe, swamps and hills of the lower reaches of the Nile.

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