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Sudan: breaking the Abyei deadlock – new ICG briefing (12.10.2007)
(Quelle: International Crisis Group (ICG)) The SPLM decision on 11 October to suspend its participation in the Government of National Unity demonstrates the urgent need for the international community to re-engage on implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) lest Sudan’s North-South war resume. Mounting tensions in the oil-rich Abyei region are the most dangerous threat to reignite that war, as the latest report from the International Crisis Group, “Sudan: Breaking the Abyei Deadlock”, demonstrates. It examines the dispute over Abyei, the most volatile aspect of the CPA, the deal that ended the country’s twenty-year civil war in which over two million people died.
Khartoum 'prevented UN troops evacuating wounded peacekeepers' (02.10.2007)
(Quelle: The Independent) United Nations personnel based in Darfur have been prevented by the Sudanese government from evacuating their African Union comrades following Saturday's attack which killed at least 10 AU troops. According to senior humanitarian officials based in Sudan, the UN mission in Sudan (Unmis) … tried to send a rescue team to the AU's base in Haskanita, North Darfur, in the hours following the attack. But they were denied access by Khartoum and it was several hours before the Sudanese armed forces sent their own troops to Haskanita to evacuate the remaining AU soldiers.
Juba to develop new map for southern Sudan territory (28.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) The Government of Southern Sudan has resolved to develop a new working map for its territory. The working map will include the disputed territories, which were incorrectly annexed to northern Sudan in the current perceived 1956 North-South boundary. … The demarcation of the North-South boundary is key to implementation of several protocols in the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. It has great bearing on redeployment of forces, wealth sharing, population census, general elections and the 2011 referendum.
New S. Sudan front resolved to contribute to peace implementation (24.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) The South Sudan United Democratic Alliance and South Sudan Democratic Forum together with prominent members of the civil society have merged yesterday creating the South Sudan Democratic Front (SSDF). The founding members of the SSDF said this new political party will allow them to contribute to the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by Sudan’s government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement on 9 January 2005.
South Sudan militia disbands, creates political front (24.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) South Sudan Defence Force (SSDF), which is a pro National Congress Party militias, has decided today formally to disband and change into political party named Democratic Front for South Sudan (DFSS). In a press conference held in Khartoum on Sunday, the leadership of the newly formed front said the party has emerged to answer hope and aspirations of the southerners and go ahead with peace and development.
Trouble anew in southern Sudan (18.09.2007)
(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) Khartoum's refusal to honor a landmark peace accord that helped to end two decades of war with southern rebels is breeding fresh anxiety in the troubled country, which has been under the scrutiny of the international community, for another brutal war in Darfur. … Khartoum says the case of the Abyei district, which produces 67 percent of oil in Sudan, is an internal matter in which the UN had no business meddling. However, this response runs contrary to the CPA. … The Abyei issue, one of the most critical issues that led to the 21-year war in southern Sudan, remains a dominant indicator of the future of the country's fragile peace.
North South border panel presents report to Sudanese presidency (18.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Sudanese Presidency listened to a report by the north-south border demarcation committee as per 1 January 1956 borders. … The committee will forward its final report on first quarter of the coming year. … The demarcation of north south border is considered as crucial for the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement it will allow the resolution of problems on the oil revenue allocations, redeployment of forces, census, and demarcation of geographical consistencies, general elections and self-determination referendum in 2011.
UN-built prison training centre opens in southern Sudan (14.09.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) A prison staff training centre in southern Sudan has opened as part of efforts by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to rehabilitate the country’s dilapidated prison service and to help reintegrate former combatants from the north-south civil war into civilian life. The Lologo regional training centre, which opened yesterday, is expected to receive up to 1,500 ex-soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), the former rebel group from the south, over the next six months, UNDP said in a press release.
Key role of policing in peacekeeping must be recognized: UN Police chief in Sudan (12.09.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) Member States need to recognize the key role played by United Nations police in peacekeeping operations and be willing to contribute experienced officers, particularly for senior positions in the upcoming mission to Darfur, said the UN’s top police officer in Sudan, where the world body will field its largest UN Police contingent ever with over 6,400 officers.
South Sudan to draft formal defence policy (05.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Semi-autonomous south Sudan has taken its first steps toward drafting a formal defence policy as part of a process to turn the rebel-dominated southern army into a conventional force, officials said. Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman Kuol Diem Kuol said top generals and politicians, members of the church and civil society, and British and U.S. security consultants had been invited to put together the beginnings of the policy.
Ashraf Qazi named as new UN envoy for Sudan (04.09.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, currently his Special Representative in Iraq”, will become his new Special Representative for Sudan, where the United Nations is working to relieve the crisis in Darfur and to improve the post-conflict situation in the south of the vast country. Mr. Qazi, from Pakistan, will succeed Jan Pronk of the Netherlands, who left the post last year.
Sudan delays census until February 2008 (03.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Sudan has delayed until February a national census seen as crucial to the success of democratic elections and a vote on secession for the oil-rich south, the United Nations said on Sunday. The census was postponed because of delays in funding, but the coalition Government of National Unity (GONU) had now pledged to put up the money, said the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), which is helping to organise the two-week census.
Sudan Armed Forces to withdraw from oil areas (02.09.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Northern soldiers deployed in Sudan’s vital southern oil fields will be withdrawn gradually, Sudanese Oil Minister Ahmed Awad al-Jaz said on Saturday. The army missed a key July 9 deadline to redeploy all its soldiers to the north of Sudan as per a landmark January 2005 peace deal that ended Africa’s longest civil war, which had claimed 2 million lives. U.N. officials said most of the northern army’s remaining troops were in the south’s oil fields, where some 500,000 barrels per day of crude are pumped.
East Sudan rebel leaders join national government (28.08.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Leaders of the ex-rebel Eastern Front arrived in the Sudanese capital on Monday to take up positions in central government as agreed in a 2006 peace deal. Hundreds of cheering Eastern Front supporters, from the non-Arab Beja and the Arab Rashaidiya tribes of Sudan’s arid east, turned out to greet them and hailed their arrival as the prelude to development in their impoverished region. … The October 2006 peace deal, mediated by neighbouring Eritrea, ended an Eastern Front campaign that had lasted a decade. Internal disputes over posts delayed implementation.
Sudan Armed Forces say in line with CPA provisions (26.08.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) have strongly denied accusations by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on implementation of re-deployment of forces in line with military arrangements contained in the Comprehensive peace agreement (CPA). In a statement issued Saturday, the General Command of the Armed Forces said since the signing of the CPA the SAF have been keen on the implementation of all the articles of the agreement one of those important clauses is the one about the redeployment of the Armed Forces north of the 1956 borderlines.
UN chief urges removal of remaining troops from South Sudan (24.08.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Sudanese military to remove all remaining troops from southern Sudan, expressing disappointment that a July 9 deadline was not met as called for in a 2005 peace deal that ended the 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and mainly Christian south. In a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Thursday, Ban said the formation of joint military units comprising government soldiers from the north and former rebels from the south is also significantly behind schedule … .
Sudanese military missed re-deployment deadline in south, says UN report (22.08.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) Sudan’s armed forces missed a deadline last month to re-deploy out of the south of the country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report charting the progress being made on implementing the comprehensive peace agreement ending the long-running north-south civil war.
South Sudan state disarms as Ugandan rebels leave (13.08.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Disarmament has finally started in south Sudan’s state of Eastern Equatoria under a 2005 peace deal now it has been made possible by the departure of Ugandan rebels, a security official said.
Cash needed to save south Sudan peace deal (11.08.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Donors have been too slow in delivering funds to develop south Sudan after a landmark peace deal and need to adopt a unified approach to deal with multiple conflicts in Africa’s largest country, observers say.
South Sudan to demobilise 25,000 soldiers (08.08.2007)
(Quelle: Reliefweb) South Sudan will begin to demobilise some 25,021 soldiers, but full support packages for former combatants are not assured yet because of U.N. funding delays, a southern official said on Tuesday. Under a north-south peace deal signed in January 2005 that ended Africa's longest civil war, separate north and south Sudan armies were created. Both agreed to reduce their troop counts.
Pressed by U.S., a wary U.N. now plans larger Iraq role (08.08.2007)
(Quelle: Washington Post) The United Nations has offered to increase its presence in Baghdad for the first time in more than three years, after repeated appeals from the Bush administration for the world body to play a more active role in mediating Iraq's sectarian disputes. B. Lynn Pascoe, the top political adviser to Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the United Nations was prepared to boost its personnel in Iraq over the coming months. The organization is also seeking $130 million to build a heavily reinforced compound in Baghdad to house the growing U.N. mission.
US envoy accuses Sudan of slowing CPA implementation (25.07.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Andrew Natsios, the special envoy of U.S. President George W. Bush accused the Sudanese government of delaying the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the 21-year North-South civil war. … The UN has reported last week that the Sudanese army has not redeployed troops from the oil rich Upper Nile state in accordance with the CPA.
Road to 2011 referendum is full of obstacles – South Sudan’s Kiir (12.07.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) First Vice President and President of the government of southern Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, said today that road for 2011 referendum would not be as smooth as expected by may. He further reiterated that SPLM must ensure that referendum period ends peacefully.
Sudan's next leader may be a southerner (11.07.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) A referendum due in 2011 on whether South Sudan should leave the rest of the country is seen as a major tuning-point in the country's history - but some suggest that nationwide elections due two years earlier could prove even more important.
Sudan misses withdrawal deadline (09.07.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) The Sudanese government has missed a key deadline under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to withdraw its troops from the south of the country. Only two-thirds of the northern Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been redeployed, officials have said. Many fear their continued presence will lead to renewed tensions as the South takes over its own security on Tuesday.
East Sudan former rebels fully deploy under deal (04.07.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Former east Sudan rebels have left their camps and deployed to designated sites around main towns, where they will be disarmed or integrated into government forces under a peace deal for the economically vital region, a former rebel official said on Tuesday. A low-level insurgency in east Sudan dragged on for a decade until a peace deal last year mediated by neighbouring Eritrea, which had hosted Sudanese opposition for years.
China to search for oil in Sudan (02.07.2007)
(Quelle: BBC) China's biggest oil company CNPC has reached a deal with Sudan to search for oil and gas in the north of the country on the coast of the Red Sea.
Al-Bashir appoints former eastern Sudan rebels in federal parliament (26.06.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Eight former rebel leading members from eastern Sudan were appointed on Monday to the Sudanese parliament, as called for by a peace deal signed last year, the official SUNA reported. President Omer Al-Bashir has named today by a Republican Decree eight members of the former rebel East Front as deputies in the National Assembly in implementation of the East Peace Agreement.
Sudanese army still controls Upper Nile and Unity States- Kiir (25.06.2007)
(Quelle: Sudan Tribune) Southern Sudan President said Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) have not yet fully withdrawn from territory of southern Sudan which they occupied prior to signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on January 9th 2005. … According to CPA, the dateline for SAF to complete their pulling out from southern Sudan territories is July 9th this year.
UN, Sudan agree to talks to improve implementation of peace deal in south (20.06.2007)
(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the Sudanese Government will hold high-level consultations shortly on how to better implement the comprehensive peace agreement from 2005 that ended the country’s protracted civil war between north and south. The peacekeeping mission and the Government agreed to hold the talks after a meeting on Saturday between the Secretary-General’s Acting Special Representative for Sudan Tayé-Brook Zerihoun and Idris AbdelGadir, the State Minister to the Sudanese Presidency.