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Kenyan Maasai dancers celebrate Sunday at Nyayo Stadium, Nairobi, Kenya during the signing of
Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Sudan’s vice president and the country’s main rebel leader
signed a comprehensive peace agreement to end Africa’s longest-running conflict Sunday, concluding
an eight-year process to stop a civil war that has cost more than 2 million lives since 1983.
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Sudanese leaders sign peace agreement
to end Africa’s longest-running conflict
By CHRIS TOMLINSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudanese
leaders signed a peace deal that, if
implemented, will end Africa’s longest
running conflict and transform politics
in a nation which has spent 40 of the last
50 years at war with itself.
Turning the . incredibly detailed
agreement into reality, though, may
prove more difficult than the eight years
of talks required to draft it.
Vice President Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha and John Garang,
chairman of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army, signed the peace
agreement in a lavish ceremony in
neighboring Kenya — where talks were
based since 1997.
The north-south war has pitted
Sudan’s Islamic government against rebels
seeking greater autonomy and a greater
share of the country’s wealth for the largely
animist south. The conflict is blamed for
more than 2 million deaths, primarily
from war-induced famine and disease.
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“Our people have experienced the
bitterness of war ... peace is indeed going
to bring our country abundance,”
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir said
after witnessing the signing. He said the
agreement is not only between the rebels
and the government but, “a new
contract for all Sudanese.”
Garang said the deal will transform
the nation, guaranteeing equality for all
races, ethnic groups and religions for the
first time in the country’s history.
“This peace agreement will change
the Sudan forever,” Garang told a
cheering crowd.
The deal calls for an autonomous
south with its own army, national power
and wealth sharing, religious freedom
and a new constitution during a six-year
interim period. At the end of that
period, the 10 southern states will hold a
referendum on independence.
This deal is similar to one reached to
end the north-south civil war that lasted
from 1955 to 1972. That agreement was
declared void by the northern
government in 1983, setting off this war.
“This agreement came as a result of our
struggle,” said Abraham Jok, a 29-year-old
Sudanese man, who was recruited into the
rebel army at the age of 12.
Speaker after speaker at the ceremony
told the thousands of spectators that the
massive problems facing the country —
and the dramatic compromises made by
both sides — will make implementing
the agreement extremely difficult. There
are dozens of militias in Sudan loosely
allied to both the government and rebels
who have not signed on to the deal.
And while the north-south conflict
may be close to solved, there are major
rebel groups in the north, east and
western Darfur region that are not part
of the peace deal.
“A peace settlement that does not
seriously address the causes of conflict in
Darfur and other areas cannot be
comprehensive, nor can it be sustained
without community involvement,”
Cynthia Gaigals, a spokeswoman for six
international aid agencies working in
Sudan. “The next six months are the
most fragile for this fledgling peace deal.”
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