If the referendum in South Sudan results in secession of the South, former South African president Thabo Mbeki told audiences at two universities in Sudan, it is imperative to understand that it will not divide into an ‘African’ south and an ‘Arab’ north. The African Union, he said, believed firmly that northern Sudan is no...
read moreTo my surprise I recently came across an article on the Sudanese referendum that serves as an interesting example of a situation in which celebrities are becoming involved in a cause, and their actions seem to be both heartfelt and may hold a genuine promise of producing some meaningful results. The article was published in TIME...
read moreBack in the days of International Environmental Law seminars, I had a conversation with a fellow seminar attendee, a Sudanese gentleman, about the future of South Sudan. Being a relatively cold-hearted international lawyer (by Environmental Law standards anyway), I maintained that self-determination is a matter usually settled by...
read moreThere isn’t a whole lot similar between the Ivory Coast and Sudan. The latter’s impending referendum is not at all similar to the presidential election recently held in the Ivory Coast in which Laurent Gbagbo has blatantly ignored defeat and seems intent on dragging his country into damaging conflict with the...
read moreIn April, following presidential and parliamentary elections, Sudanese party leaders began informal discussions about structuring negotiations on post-referendum and post-CPA arrangements between the North and South. Concurrently, former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, headed the AU High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP),...
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