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Georgia’s two breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, announced, that they had been recognized by Tuvalu - the tiny South Pacific island nation for which the Georgian government pledged USD 12,000 in financial aid last year.
Tuvalu is the fourth smallest country in the world covering just 26 square kilometers with a population of less than 12,000 people.
Some of Somali parliamentarians, hailing form Gedo region, have said they against the formation of the new Azania state which was recently established in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya.
Speaking to local media, Abdurrahman Yusuf Diriye, a Somali lawmaker, said the Azania administration doesn’t represent the clans of Somalia, spelling out that the MPs from Gedo don’t recognize the existence of the administration which led by Mohamed Gandi, former defense minister of Somalia.
Diriye charged Azania with stoking the ongoing battles in parts of Gedo region in southern Somalia.
South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, Juba.
Sudan earlier became the first state to officially recognise its new neighbour.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and dignitaries from around the world will be attending the celebrations in the southern capital, Juba.
Sudan has announced its official recognition of its new neighbour - the first country to do so.
With three days to go before the independence of southern Sudan is declared on July 9th, the Government has revealed the agenda for the landmark celebrations.
A host of concerts, sports events and religious prayers are taking place all week, reaching a climax on the day itself in the capital Juba and across the country’s ten states. The main planned events will centre around the 8th, 9th and 10th July.