Africa welcomes South Sudan to the UN

African ambassadors at the United Nations, on Thursday, welcomed the 54th African State – South Sudan to the family of nations, during the adoption of the UN resolution admitting the new nation as the 193rd UN Member State.Speaking as the Chair of the African Group at the UN General Assembly, Rwanda’s permanent representative to the UN, Eugène-Richard Gasana, congratulated the new state and observed that the independence of South Sudan is a lesson for the UN.