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Sudan Peace Accord Signed by GOS and SPLM

Associated Press - 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 in the south that has cost more than 2 million lives since 1983.

Incredible news! After 21 years and millions dead the two sides have come together. What will be more amazing is if the agreement is kept and used to motivate an end to the genocide in Dafur.

Updates and Other Commenting:

Sudan Watch - Garang says he will not send his troops to fight Darfur

Sudan: the Passion of the Present -

Note, Khartoum has so much breathing space now, it seems unreal. No wonder Sudan's President is so excited, acting so magnanimously and offering to now "consider" power sharing with Darfur. Khartoum must think they did right all these years. They stole power through a gun barrel and now the peace deal legitimises them. They don't even have to completely withdraw their troops from southern Sudan for another 2.5 years.

Khartoum gives the impression of welcoming peace but what they are really welcoming is the heat being taken off them. It seems as though Darfur is back to square one. The past 22 months of hell -- costing around 400,000 lives and displacing millions of people -- and two U.N. Security Council resolutions threatening possible sanctions along with a bill signed by President Bush last month -- it's like none of it ever happened.

Posted by tim at January 9, 2005 2:22 AM

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