South Sudan Creating US Embassy in Washington DC

With the birth of a nation comes the birth of its embassy, a powerful emblem of its legitimacy and an assertion of the country’s identity on the world stage. South Sudan will soon officially join Washington’s 190 embassies, and Chan is one of 14 employees working for the fledging mission, whose first big undertaking is Kiir’s mid-December visit here as part of a U.S. government-hosted South Sudan development conference.