Sudan: Aftale underskrevet, men nye forhindringer i sigte

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Den seneste aftale mellem de stridende parter i Sudan garanterer på ingen måde varig fred, skriver Irin News i dag. Dermed er der lange udsigter før intentionerne bag fredsaftalen fra 2005 bliver virkelighed.

On 13 December, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a former rebel group that now governs the territory of Southern Sudan, and the National Congress Party (NCP), in power in the north, ironed out major differences, principally over the details of a 2011 referendum on whether the south will secede or form a united Sudan.

– Whatever they have agreed on is definitely the first step of a breakthrough. The two sides were not talking to each other and were not accepting each other. Now they are communicating, Fouad Hikmat, a Sudan analyst at the International Crisis Group, told IRIN on 16 December.

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