Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei:
I muri i te whakatūnga o te perehitini o Omar al-Bashir i te tau 1989, i noho tonu a Sudan ki te Tonga i raro i a Sudan mo te 16 tau. I te 9 o Hanuere 2005, i hainatia he kirimana rangimarie whānui i Nairobi Kenya i Nyayo Stadium i hoatu he marama matomato ki te whakatau-whaiaro. Ka rite ki te korero a te mutunga o Dr. John Garang de Mabior, "Ka whai a South Sudanese kia noho tonu hei kawanatanga ma te tukanga whakatau-whaiaro i roto i te waa o te Pooti Pooti kia whakatau kia noho tonu ki raro i te United Sudan, i te New Sudan ranei ka kitea i roto i te wehenga pai".