CPA

By Charlie Clements Charles De Long was the U.S. Minister to Japan in 1871. After an incident in which an Okinawan vessel was shipwrecked in Taiwan and a number of its passengers murdered, De Long encouraged the Japan to falsely

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Further to my posting yesterday, I am excerpting a few lines from President Buyoya’s speech to the summit of political parties in southern Sudan on 1 March: “During the long years of war, the people of southern Sudan demonstrated that

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In a keen analysis published on this blog, Eddie Thomas aptly diagnosed the challenges and risks present in “the final act of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)”—which includes next month’s nationwide elections, the South’s self-determination referendum in January 2011, and

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The British Associate Parliamentary Group Report on Sudan, based on six months’ of hearings and testimonies from a wide range of Sudanese and international stakeholders, was released in London yesterday. The report is entitled On the Brink: Towards Lasting Peace

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A new report by Johan Brosché of Uppsala University, in tandem with the UN’s Mediation Support Unit, evaluates the CPA, focusing on power-sharing aspects of the accord. Also, the paper seeks to answer what lessons can be learned from the

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