John Garang

If we are given orders, Anytime that the leadership gives us orders and we start moving to Juba, we are sure and confident that we shall capture Juba.

Their commander is this guy called John Garang, colonel in the Sudanese army.

He's from Dinka and unusually for a guerrilla leader, he has a doctorate in economics from Iowa State University.

Now, this is the point where this story is supposed to draw its conclusions, right? Israel armed the first rebellion.

It killed somewhere around 2 million people.

It ended with a peace agreement in 2005 that gave the South a referendum on whether to leave.

John Garang, the man who had built the SPLA from a mutiny at Bor, became first vice president of the whole country.

We have ended the longest war in Africa.