By Alan Boswell / Khartoum
Fears of a bloody birth for the world's newest country, South Sudan, are becoming ever more real after weeks of battles between its autonomous government and their opponents. Hundreds have died in fighting between South Sudan authorities and rebel militias. Now five rebel groups in four of the country's ten states appear to have united under one name, the Southern Sudan Democratic Movement, and one commander, George Athor. "There is a need for the world to know who we are," Athor told TIME via satellite phone from an undisclosed location. "Our manifesto will come out very soon."...[continued]
