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Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan 3
Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 3

Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 3

The UN Security Council sent a peacekeeping force, Unmiss, to southern Sudan to monitor compliance with the peace agreement. The CPA was followed by some political softening, and al-Bashir’s party NCP co-ruled with Garang’s SPLM. In July 2005, Garang became Vice President under al-Bashir and President of Autonomous South Sudan, but only a few weeks later he died in a helicopter crash. He was succeeded in all posts by SPLM’s Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who, unlike Garang, openly advocated independence for the…

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Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan 2
Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 2

Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 2

Sudan now became one of the world’s toughest dictatorships. Opposition politicians were imprisoned or deported. Sharia also came to apply to non-Muslims. The Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden was invited to Sudan and had his own training camps there from 1991-1996. Hassan al-Turabi was competing against al-Bashir, but in 2000 the president decided the power struggle by excluding al-Turabi and his supporters from the ruling party and firing them from all political assemblies. After the purges, the government took on a less  Islamist  appearance. The influence…

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Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan 1
Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 1

Conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan Part 1

Africa’s longest war, between northern and southern Sudan, lasted from 1955 to 2005 (with a shaky pause of eleven years) and claimed the lives of up to two million people. In 2011, the country was divided into Sudan and South Sudan after the South Sudanese voted to form an independent state. However, several disputes remain to be resolved. In both countries, internal conflicts are going on at the same time. The 2005 peace agreement stipulated that the people of the south, after six…

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Conflicts within South Sudan 4
Conflicts within South Sudan Part 4

Conflicts within South Sudan Part 4

The coalition government takes office The division of power within the future government was decided, but no date was set for the coalition government to take office. In February 2016, Kiir reinstated rival Machar as vice president, but Machar refused to take the position unless all government soldiers first left Juba in accordance with the peace agreement. Out in the country, the fighting continued. In March, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accused both sides of the conflict of serious human…

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Conflicts within South Sudan 3
Conflicts within South Sudan Part 3

Conflicts within South Sudan Part 3

In the outside world, anger increased over the brutality and the leaders’ indifference to the hardships of the population. The peace talks in Addis Ababa continued, but they were slow. The US and the EU threatened sanctions if delays continued. In March, the UN estimated that more than a million South Sudanese were homeless and that 800,000 of them were fleeing the country, while a quarter of a million had managed to reach neighboring countries. According to listofusnewspapers, a famine catastrophe also…

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Conflicts within South Sudan 2
Conflicts within South Sudan Part 2

Conflicts within South Sudan Part 2

No peace after the peace agreement During the six-year transition period until South Sudan’s independence in 2011, small-scale fighting continued around the country. The leaders of the SPLM / SPLA accused the government in Khartoum of supporting rebels with the intention of sabotaging the peace agreement and stopping the division of the country. Outbreaks of violence are also believed in some cases to have been due to local leaders’ attempts to strengthen their positions ahead of the upcoming elections in the…

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Conflicts within South Sudan 1
Conflicts within South Sudan Part 1

Conflicts within South Sudan Part 1

Barely 2.5 years after the creation of the state, South Sudan was drawn into a devastating civil war in December 2013. A power struggle between the country’s two main leaders triggered the conflict. It was not until 2015 that a peace agreement was signed following international pressure. By then, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people had been killed and over two million had become homeless as a result of the war. Already the following year, new fighting broke out and a…

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