“The war will not only affect the Southern Sudan”, said Kiir, who is also president of the government of Southern Sudan. “It will infiltrate into Kenya and other countries.
The problem in Southern Sudan must be given attention by everybody”.
Sudan’s mainly Arab North and mainly Christian and animist South fought one of Africa’s longest civil conflicts between 1983 and 2005.
It ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in which Kenya led the mediation.
“We sympathize with the people of Southern Sudan for what they have undergone and that is why nobody should sabotage the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement”, Odinga said at the dinner.
Implementation of the agreement however has fallen behind schedule and led to renewed tensions between a northern regime under intense international pressure and a South drifting towards secession.
The national unity government born out of the 2005 accord has remained fragile, as clashes have erupted in disputed border regions, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands to flee their homes.
The oil-rich South houses some of Africa’s most remote and under-developed areas and borders Kenya, Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.
Observers say that countries in the region are preparing for the possibility of fresh conflict in Southern Sudan.
Source:http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=6819&CategoryID=6
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