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085991
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2008.
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Between 22 April and 6 May 2008, Sudan's fifth population and housing census was conducted in both North and South Sudan. Because it will have a decisive impact on future power and wealth sharing in Sudan, the census has been highly contested, and its outcome is likely to be controversial. Will the census enhance future stability in the Sudan? Or will it turn out to be a stumbling block and cause for further conflicts?
This briefing argues that the hotly contested census not only highlighted existing tensions between the North and the South on topics such as resources, power sharing, and identity but also intensified competition among Southern Sudanese political actors. The census, an immense logistical undertaking, mobilized the major political actors who seek to use it instrumentally in their own interest. It also created high expectations among the population about the future provision of services and development.
Under the provisions of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/A) of Southern Sudan and the (Northern) National Congress Party (NCP), the census is supposed to pave the way for the planned 2009 general elections as well as the referendum in 2011 in which Southerners will decide about independence from the rest of Sudan.
In 2005, after 21 years of war between the North and the South, the two main parties in the conflict - the SPLM/A and NCP - signed the CPA, which ended armed hostilities. The vision of then SPLM/A rebel leader John Garang, who died in a helicopter crash a few months after the signing, was not an independent South, but a united 'New Sudan'. In terms of the CPA's power-sharing agreement, the SPLM, the political wing of the SPLA, became a partner of the NCP at the national level in the Government of National Unity (GoNU). In the South, the SPLM dominates the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), which was established with independent executive, legislative, and judiciary bodies based on the CPA.
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085549
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098966
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141372
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087701
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2009.
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From 35,000 feet, the status quo in Sudan
is an unmitigated disaster that only seems
to be getting worse. In Darfur, war continues
to rage, and millions of civilians are packed
into squalid camps with dwindling access to humanitarian
assistance. The Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA)-a landmark accord that ended
a 22-year war between the government and rebels
based in southern Sudan-is unraveling, and
hot spots along the north-south border threaten a
resumption of full-scale civil war and the violent
dissolution of the state.
On the ground, however, the status quo is shifting,
and it is doing so in ways that create opportunities
for positive change. Now it is up to the international
community and key decision makers in
Sudan to leverage recent developments to alter fundamentally
how the Sudanese government treats its
citizens and relates to the rest of the world.
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