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Title:Why Abyei Matters: The Breaking Point of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement?
Author:Johnson, Douglas H.ISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:107
Issue:426
Period:January
Pages:1-19
Language:English
Geographic terms:Sudan
South Sudan
Subjects:peace treaties
boundaries
Politics and Government
nationalism
Law, Human Rights and Violence
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/27666996
Abstract:The Abyei Area, straddling the North-South border of Sudan, was the subject of a separate protocol in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between the Sudan government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in January 2005. One provision of that protocol was the establishment of a boundaries commission to define the territory to be included in the special administration of the area. The commission's decision was to be implemented 'with immediate effect' on the submission of its report in July 2005, but implementation has been blocked by the National Congress Party, which still controls the central government in Sudan. The conduct of war in Abyei established many precedents for the conduct of war in Darfur in the use of tribal militias and the forcible displacement of non-Arab peoples. The failure to implement the Abyei Protocol has implications not only for determining the North-South border (as stipulated by the CPA), but for the implementation of any Darfur peace agreement. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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