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Title:Africa's dilemmas in the Sudan
Author:Deng, Francis M.ISNI
Year:1998
Periodical:The World Today: Chatham House Review
Volume:54
Issue:3
Pages:72-74
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:civil wars
peace treaties
foreign intervention
Abstract:With the post Cold War strategic disengagement of the superpowers from Africa, Africans are increasingly assuming the primary role in addressing the problems on the continent. In the case of the civil war that has raged intermittently for over four decades in the Sudan, the latest attempts at mediation have involved States in the subregion. In May 1994 the member States of the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Desertification (IGADD), subsequently renamed the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD), an organization that includes Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda, presented a Declaration of Principles which tried to reconcile the competing perspectives in the conflict. These 'Frontline countries' subsequently adopted a twofold approach: to support the military position of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/SPLA) and the northern opposition groups to impress upon the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime that it cannot win the war, and to develop a policy framework for resolving the conflict and establishing a system more in tune with the region. Efforts to unify the opposition are paying off with the formation, in June 1994, of an umbrella association known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Sudan's future remains difficult to predict. Howevever, the involvement of a new regional leadership means that the equations of power in the Sudan can no longer continue to be dominated by the Arab-Islamic north. Black Africa is fully on the side of the south on this issue.
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