Up Next for New Republic: Police Overwhelmed to Man Africa’s Longest Border

The north-south Sudan border is the longest in Africa, and some of the regions around are not inhabited, making it difficult to install a civil administration to control influx and exit of things, such as firearms. The Police chief of the new nation has warned that the new republic has to stand up to the challenge of instability along the borders.

“As long as there are nomads, always there will be problems here and there, but we also have to be handled,” said Acuil. The Police chief said the country starts off with a big challenge, which includes screening the police which he said is largely “either old or illiterate [with no] policing background.”
The police will be scaled-down and the fit will be trained and properly equipped.
But among the hardships will be funding for training.

MINISTERS GET PASSPORTS
Meanwhile, passports for constitutional office holders, including ministers arrived days to Independence, but the rest of the country will get theirs in October, New Times has learnt.
To ensure that the country does not fail to conduct official visits, the ministry of Internal Affairs has produced passports for the executives. The passports were ready last week.
“Once you are a republic, a country of your own, you need legitimate documents for travel,” Acuil, the Inspector General of Police said. “We assume the ones we have been using belong to the Republic of Sudan. As we emerge as a new republic, we should have our own.”
But the people won’t get passports until October, Acuil said.
“The passport is made in a way that it should not be for all the people of South Sudan,” Acuil said. “It will be for the executives and constitutional post holders.”
The police chief said he the general passports will be issued in October. “When you are receiving the new one, you surrender back the old one.”