On Jan. 9, 2005, the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement-Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army (SPLM-SPLA) signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the country’s 22-year civil war. The agreement was the outcome of a long process of tortuous negotiations that began in Abuja, Nigeria in 1992.
The CPA has several protocols, each dealing with specific aspects of the conflict including the status of religion in governance, the right of the people of the South to self-determination, security arrangements, power sharing, wealth sharing, the future of the district of Abyei, and the future of the Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile regions. The CPA also includes a time schedule of implementation modalities, a ceasefire agreement, and the deployment of international monitors. The terms of the agreement are to apply during a six year interim period at the end of which the people of Southern Sudan would decide in a plebiscite whether to remain part of Sudan or opt for a separate independent state.
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