Artillery fire pounded Juba’s government district Saturday even as warring factions met for the first time on the eve of direct talks in Ethiopia to pull South Sudan back from the brink of all-out civil war. Members of the delegation opposed to South Sudan’s government attend talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to try and broker…
What Next For A Lasting Peace And Unity In South Sudan?
By Jacob Akol The ten states of South Sudan grouped in the three historical provinces of the Sudan, Greater Bahr el Ghazal(green) Greater Equatoria(blue) and Greater Upper Nile(yellow) January 3, 2014[]…“We should use this crisis as an opportunity to revisit what we recognized before the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Independence.” Asks Jacob J. Akol…
Breakdown in South Sudan
What Went Wrong — and How to Fix It Written by Alex de Waal and Abdul Mohammed The South Sudanese people made extraordinary sacrifices to achieve independence two and a half years ago. That makes their leaders’ abject failure to build a viable South Sudan since then all the more galling. Now, a political crisis imperils the…
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