Dignitaries at South Sudan Independence Day Celebration [PHOTOS]

July 11, 2011 1:52 AM EDT

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South Sudan Independence Day Celebration [PHOTOS]

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered in the capital Juba on Saturday, July 9, 2011 as their new country formally declared its independence, a hard-won separation from the north that also plunged the fractured region into a new period of uncertainty.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon  and dignitaries from many countries attended the Independence celebrations in Juba.

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