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"Mr President, one of the tragedies of post-independence Africa has been the cycle of civil wars. Of course, now that South Sudan is independent, it is no longer strictly a civil war, but there is no doubt that the conflict is a product and continuation of earlier civil conflicts. One causal factor is the legacy of colonists who drew arbitrary lines on maps that ignored the ethnic, religious and linguistic populations, either splitting them up or corralling them together with incompatible populations.
The southern Abantu and Nilotic peoples have little in common with the Arab and Nubian populations of the North. Before we in Europe feel too superior, we, too, have seen failed states that have overlooked deep vertical divisions. I hope that wiser counsels will prevail and that the people of the two states will eventually become better neighbours than they were fellow-citizens. We must learn from the mistakes of others; the creation of states with vertical divisions is always ill-advised. Is freedom of movements of peoples within Europe, and especially from the Third World into Europe, really such a good idea?"@en1
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