05/10/2025
South Sudan launched with all the optimism of a startup everyone wanted to invest in—bright ideas, big ambitions, and the naïve belief that people could actually get along. Then 2013 happened. The leadership discovered that compromise was optional, peace agreements were just fancy paperwork, and chaos was way more entertaining. By 2016, the plot hadn’t changed—same cast, same squabbles, slightly more explosions. The economy, governance, and basic services became optional features, leaving the citizens to navigate a country running on hope, prayer, and whatever oil money hadn’t already disappeared.
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