South Sudan

Today we welcome the Republic of South Sudan to the Family of Nations.

Actually it isn't really a family, and there is going to be something less than a family feel in the border area as the Muslim North eyes the oil-rich Christian south.

I predict there will be international intervention in the area before this decade is out, and since Sudan as a country was largely a British invention (we didn't want Egypt controlling the whole of the Nile) we shall probably feel obliged to participate.

Hey-ho.

PS It is not widely recognised that during the Second World War, Sudan fought and won a battle against Italy.