In the 14 years after South Sudan gained independence from Sudan, problems have increased in Africa’s newest country, says the leading Catholic in the Horn of Africa country.
Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla said despite the hope that independence brought, South Sudan is still reeling from the unfulfilled promise of peace, accusing the country’s authorities of mismanaging the country’s natural resources.
“We got this independence from Sudan. We thought that we were going to solve our problems. But it seems that problems have increased,” the cardinal said while at the Synod on Synodality in Rome.
He serves as the archdiocese of Juba in South Sudan, and said the country went to war because the people wanted to be free, “but now we realize that there are still issues that we have to resolve together.”
Source: Cruxnow
