Preliminary results from southern Sudan's referendum show that 99.5 per cent voted for independence from the north.
But there has already been backlash - a mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave the south, has spread through several towns.
At least 50 people have been killed in the past four days.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Juba in Southern Sudan on the challenges facing the new country.
