SOUTHERN SUDAN

Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS)

ID provides strategic advice and assistance to the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) in meeting its diplomatic challenges, in particular to navigate the complex implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). ID works with the GoSS to make clear to the international community the challenges and needs it faces now and those it will face post 2011, and to assist the GoSS to articulate its own approach to the CPA and to Sudan's future in general.

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Background

Africa's longest war ended in January 2005, with the signature of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Government of Sudan in Naivasha, Kenya. The SPLM had fought since 1983 for a secular Sudanese state, with a separate autonomous government for the south of the country. The 2005 agreement provided for an expression of the right to self determination for the people of the South through a referendum to take place in January 2011.

Southern Sudan faces unique challenges, regardless of the result of the 2011 referendum. It has significant potential sources of wealth - particularly its oil reserves - but is at present one of the poorest parts of Africa, with particular long-standing disadvantages in the areas of health and education. Governance and security needs will require the additional support of the international community, including spillover from the neighbouring region of Darfur and threats from the Lord's Resistance Army along the southern and western borders. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Officials of the Government of Southern Sudan

  • Mr. Deng Alor, Minister for Regional Cooperation - Juba
  • Mr. Pagan Amun, Minister of Peace and CPA Implementation - Juba
  • Dr. Cirino Hiteng Ofuho, Minister in the Office of the President - Juba
  • Hon. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, Head of Mission, Government of Southern Sudan Mission - USA

 

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