Treaty Gives Sudan a Shot at Peace ; Khartoum Ends Two-Decade War with Rebel Army
The Washington Times › January 13, 2005
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Africa's longest civil war is over. Sunday's peace agreement, signed in Nairobi, Kenya, by Sudan's government and the Sudan
People's Liberation Army and its nonmilitary arm, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, now referred to as the SPLM/A, ended fighting that began in the mid-1980s. The war claimed 2 million lives and displaced 4 million people.See the full content of this document
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Treaty Gives Sudan a Shot at Peace ; Khartoum Ends Two-Decade War with Rebel Army
The treaty commits both sides to a permanent cease-fire, stipulates the even division of oil revenues between north and south, and allows the three southern states to hold a referendum after six years to decide if they want to secede.
In the meantime, rebel leader John Garang is to become Sudan's vice president, and the south of the country is to be governed as a...See the full content of this document
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