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South Sudan: SPLM Supports President Kiir, Accuses Splinters Of Aiding KhartoumBy Joe Odaby South Sudan NewsJuba, South Sudan — December 12, 2013 … The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) top leadership has asserted that there is no crisis in the party and dismissed the party rebels as “disgruntled elements”. A group of SPLM party members led by former South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar and ex-Secretary General Pagan Amum accused in a press conference held in Juba, South Sudan last Friday the leadership of the ruling party of deviating from the party’s initial vision, and of corruption. In response the...

The people of South Kordofan have become caught up in the unresolved contradiction of the post-John Garang Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), which is now leading South Sudan into independence; what happens when a national federalist political movement becomes an ethnic separatist political movement? This is the problem in several areas of Sudan outside the new borders of South Sudan, areas in which the then federalist SPLM/A recruited fighters to combat the Khartoum regime in the interests of creating a federal “New Sudan.” With South Sudan declaring full independence on July 9, a force of roughly 40,000 Nuba SPLA fighters...

New Sudan vision is a dream within reach Thursday 10 May 2007 03:00 By Jacob K. Lupai May 9, 2007 — New Sudan was a concept born out of a critical analysis of its opposite, the Old Sudan. The New Sudan concept became a vision with the honest desire to transform the Old Sudan into a secular nation of prosperity where race and religion will have no bearing on one’s citizenship. Arab racism, Islamic bigotry and discriminatory practices are the most divisive issues in the Sudan because they are the major factors in the marginalisation of the majority non-Arab Sudanese...

Mr Kiir, Sudan's vice-president, has warned of a return to war Former southern rebels in Sudan have suspended their involvement in the national unity government.The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) said its northern partners had failed to implement parts of a 2005 deal that ended a 21-year civil war. These include boundary demarcations and the redeployment of northern troops from the south. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir warned recently there could be a return to war if the deal was not kept to. Some 1.5 million people died in the conflict - Africa's longest civil war - which pitted...

July 16, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese government accused the US for the first time of involvement in a sabotage plot foiled yesterday. Sudanese security services on Saturday arrested the leaders of the Umma Reform and Renewal opposition party over allegations of planning sabotage actions in the country. The former presidential assistant was arrested along with a number of retired army generals, including retired general Mohamed Ali Hamid, who worked as deputy director of security in the late eighties, as well as former minister of tourism, Abdeljalil al-Basha. Sudan’s preisdential adviser Nafi Ali Nafi told Al Jazeera news channel...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called for deploying 10,130 peacekeepers to Sudan in the wake of a peace accord reached between the government and rebels operating in the south of the country. In a report to the Security Council, Annan said the force will help Khartoum implement the agreement signed with rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 9. The contingent will include 750 military observers, 160 officers, small peacekeeping units totaling 5,070 personnel, a protection force of 4,150 soldiers. An additional force of 755...

Since it was the cultural and religious beliefs of the Government of Sudan that catalyzed the civil war in 1983 by imposing Islamic Law on the South, one has to wonder what has changed in the GOS' belief system that will enable the unification of North and South Sudan. I've found nothing to indicate that Khartoum has changed or is capable of keeping an agreement.