Sudan on the Verge of Another War?
Monday, January 11th, 2010It has been five years that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed that brought an end to decades of war in the south of Sudan and its adjacent regions.
However, the peace in Sudan is fragile. The CPA has not been implemented yet. Sudan is on the verge of another war. 2009 has seen the highest levels of violence since the CPA was signed in January 2005.
Now, in the last year of the transition period, general elections have been announced for spring 2010 and there is the plan to hold a referendum in 2011 that might create an independent state of South Sudan.
To draw the current developments in Sudan to the attention of Parliament, a number of NGOs, amongst them the Bonn International Center for Conversion, Oxfam Deutschland, Amnesty International and media in cooperation and transition, invited German MPs to a public panel discussion in the Bundestag on January 7 2010. (more…)