Tuesday, August 25, 2009

South Sudan Accuses Khartoum Of Reneging The Peace Agreement

South Sudan Says Khartoum Is Reneging On CPA Deal -- Washington Post/Reuters

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A southern Sudanese government official accused the Khartoum government Tuesday of trying to sabotage the right of south Sudan's people to self-determination through a referendum.

Deng Ajack, the south's minister for cooperation, said the north's National Congress Party (NCP) was trying to undermine the terms of the 2005 peace deal that ended a 22-year war between Sudan's Muslim north and mostly Christian south.

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More News On South Sudan

The Security Situation In Darfur Remains Volatile
-- Official Spin
Khartoum armament campaign is lethal to regional security -- Sudan tribune
Over 90% of the people of South Sudan will vote for separation – survey -- Sudan Tribune
Hunger warning for south Sudan -- Al Jazeera
Libyan leader says independent South Sudan would be ‘very weak’ -- Sudan Tribune
Moving Toward Peace In Sudan -- Voice of America

1 comment:

Motassim said...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Pressing_Obama_on_Sudan.html

One consultant to Sudan advocacy groups, Chuck Thies, emails that the move is the product of restlessness among advocates at the administration's "seeming inaction" and concern at Special Envoy Scott Gration's statement that genocide in Sudan had stopped.

Writes Thies:

Something to chew on that has not yet entered the public debate: Though the rate of death from violence in Darfur has been greatly reduced in the past year, millions of people still live in unsafe refugee and IDP camps, slowly starving to death. No one suggested the Holocaust genocide ended until the death camps were liberated; the same should be true for Darfur.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Pressing_Obama_on_Sudan.html