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Thousands UN troops for Sudan
Wednesday 12 January 2005 19:14
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan 12, 2005 (UPI) — The United Nations is expected to deploy thousands of observers by mid March to oversee the implementation of a peace agreement in Sudan. The spokesperson for the United Nations advance mission in the Sudan, Radhia Achouri. (AP).
Radia Ashouri, the U.N. spokeswoman in Khartoum, said Wednesday Secretary-General Kofi Annan will present a detailed plan of the U.N. peace-supporting mission in Sudan to the Security Council on Jan. 25.
She said a (...)
South Sudan’s makeshift capital starts from zero
Wednesday 12 January 2005 14:52
By Katie Nguyen
RUMBEK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The depth of poverty in southern Sudan becomes clear on visiting Rumbek, temporary capital of the oil-exporting region under a peace deal signed on Sunday.
A young boy wanders amidst ruins in Rumbek’s central market. Rumbek is due to become the temporary ’capital’ of southern Sudan under a peace deal to be signed this weekend by the government and the main rebel movement. (AFP/File). .
A walk in the town reveals none of the trappings of a (...)
UN site agreed in Sudan peace process
Wednesday 12 January 2005 13:52
KHARTOUM, Jan 11 (AFP) — UN peacekeepers to be sent to Sudan after a peace agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement will be based at Kassala in the east of the country, a news report said Wednesday.
By mutual agreement between Sudanese and UN authorities, offices and barracks will be built close to the airport at Kassala, Sudan’s Akhbar Al-Yum newspaper reported.
According to the paper, the UN force is to number 7,000 troops, although no official UN decision has (...)
African-American executive gives advice on Sudanese peace
Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:16
DAKAR, Senegal, Jan 12, 2005 (PANA) — To move forward, leaders of the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) need to focus on consolidating the gains from the peace agreement signed in Nairobi last Sunday, advises an African-American executive, Melvin P. Foote.
Melvin Foote
Foote, the Founder and Executive Officer of the Washington, D.C. based Constituency for Africa(CFA) told PANA in an electronic interview that the SPLM needs not to "worry too much now whether they should (...)
Darfur combatants still ignore Sudan peace pacts
Wednesday 12 January 2005 00:30
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Fighting is spreading in Sudan’s Darfur region and may intensify in the short-run despite a landmark peace agreement between Khartoum and rebels in the south, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. Jan Pronk, the special U.N. envoy for Sudan.
Jan Pronk, the special U.N. envoy for Sudan, told the U.N. Security Council arms were flooding into the region, violence was spreading beyond camps for the homeless, banditry was increasing (...)
Thousands greet Sudan’s president on southern tour
Wednesday 12 January 2005 00:07
By MOHAMED OSMAN, Associated Press Writer
MALAKAL, Sudan, Jan 11, 2005 (AP) — Sudan’s president vowed to rebuild his country’s war-ravaged south as he continued his regional swing Tuesday to celebrate the peace treaty that brought an end to a 21-year civil war, the African continent’s longest conflict. Some of the 10,000 people attending a rally in Juba, Sudan Monday Jan. 10, 2005. (AP).
More than 15,000 mainly Christian southern Sudanese crammed Peace Square in central Malakal, (...)
A peace deal for Sudan brings opportunity for freedom and oil prosperity
Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:05
By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 11, 2005 (AP) — An agreement to end two decades of civil war in Sudan not only brings the opportunity for millions of people to return home and begin new lives, it also gives investors an opening in a needy country with large oil reserves. Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir holds aloft a bird symbolizing peace at a rally in Juba, Sudan Monday, Jan. 10, 2005. (AP).
Experts predict that oil and gas companies will rush in (...)
Eritrean FM attends signing of Sudan peace agreement
Tuesday 11 January 2005 14:30
ASMARA, Jan 10, 2004 (Shabait) — The Eritrean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ali Seid Abdellah, attended the official signing ceremony of the Comprehensive Peace Treaty reached between the Government of the Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).
Ali Sayyid Abdallah
Speaking at the ceremony held in Nairobi, Kenya on January 9, 2005, Mr. Ali Seid Abdellah said the arrangement falls short of being labeled as "a comprehensive peace agreement" in light of ongoing wars (...)
Distrust clouds peace euphoria in Sudan rebel town
Tuesday 11 January 2005 14:21
By Katie Nguyen
RUMBEK, Sudan, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Just days after euphoria greeted the signing of a peace deal to end 21 years of civil war in Sudan, murmurings of mistrust are surfacing in the rebel-held south. Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement supporter dances and prays while holding a Cross and bible in Naivasha, Kenya, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004.(AP). .
Celebratory rallies have been held in the rebel stronghold of Rumbek since Sudan’s Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and rebel (...)
Beshir pledges to boost services, infrastructure in south Sudan
Tuesday 11 January 2005 14:12
KHARTOUM, Jan 11 (AFP) — President Omar al-Beshir pledged to develop services and infrastructure projects in southern Sudan to encourage the region to remain united with the north, newspapers reported Tuesday.
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir addresses a crowd in Juba, Sudan Monday Jan. 10, 2004. (AP). .
Following the signing of a peace treaty in Nairobi on Sunday to end two decades of north-south civil war, Beshir set out on a tour of towns in southern Sudan that took him to Juba (...)
Egypt’s Mubarak commends Sudan peace agreement
Tuesday 11 January 2005 13:14
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan 11, 2005 (PANA) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has commended the peace agreement signed on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya, between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), saying that the two parties have written their names in the history of their country.
Hosni Mubarak
"This is a very important agreement for peace in Sudan which should restore prosperity to the country ravaged by war for long years," Mubarak said.
"It took (...)
Ugandan rebel leader must leave South Sudan or face SPLA: Garang
Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:41
By Reuben Olita, The New Vision
KAMPALA, Jan 11, 2005 — Joseph Kony’s LRA rebels must vacate southern Sudan or face the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) following the peace agreement between the SPLA and Khartoum on Sunday. Uganda president Yoweri Museveni and Chairman of the IGAD Summit of Heads of States (L) and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLA) leader John Garang (R) share a joke during the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the SPLA and the Sudan (...)
Algerian papers welcome Sudanese peace agreement
Tuesday 11 January 2005 01:43
ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan 10, 2005 (PANA) — Algerian newspapers on Monday applauded the definitive agreement signed in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday to end 21 years of fighting between the Sudanese government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).
With a banner headline "A continent on the path to peace", the daily El-Moudjahid writes that: " the will to install peace is at last gaining ground in a continent continually ravaged by fighting and fratricidal wars thanks to enlightened (...)
Aid agencies hail signing of Sudan peace agreement
Tuesday 11 January 2005 01:30
NAIROBI, Jan 10, 2005 (Xinhua) — Six international agencies working in Sudan on Monday welcomed the historic signing of the long- awaited comprehensive Sudan peace agreement. In a statement issued in Nairobi, the agencies also called on the international community to ensure the fledgling peace deal is implemented.
"The agreement offers Sudan the best hope yet for peace. For millions of displaced people it will signal the start of their journey home. It is the start of the process of (...)
Kadhafi praises final peace accord over South Sudan
Tuesday 11 January 2005 00:52
TRIPOLI, Libya, Jan 10, 2005 (PANA) — Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gadhafi has hailed the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement on South Sudan between the government in Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M), to end 21 years of civil war in Africa’s largest country.
Both sides signed the permanent ceasefire agreement Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya.
Libyan minister of foreign relations and international co- operation, Abderrahman Chagham, who attended the (...)
Denmark to send 45 soldiers to Sudan
Tuesday 11 January 2005 00:43
STOCKHOLM, Jan 10, 2005 (Xinhua) — Denmark will send 45 soldiers to Sudan to take part in the United Nation’s peace-keeping force there after the peace agreement Khartoum signed with the rebels in south Sudan on Sunday, Ritzau news bureau reported on Monday. Denish Captain Karsten Engdahl said the Danish soldiers will be part of the headquarters company.
"We expect that our soldiers will work in the headquarters company which is being established. They may work as, for example, drivers, (...)
Khartoum goes gay over southern Sudan peace deal
Tuesday 11 January 2005 00:30
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan 10, 2005 (PANA) — Sudanese, particularly those hailing from the southern region, Monday took to the streets here celebrating the signing Sunday of a peace deal to end over two decades of fighting between the Khartoum government and rebels in the south. Southern Sudanese dancing groups take part in peace celebrations in Juba, Sudan, Monday, Jan 10, 2005. (AP).
From dawn they danced, sang and performed prayers as they waited at the Green Square in anticipation of (...)
Roots of bloodshed run deep in Sudan’s Darfur: experts warn
Tuesday 11 January 2005 00:07
By JIM LOBE
WASHINGTON, Jan 10, 2005 (IPS) — Human rights groups and other observers remain worried about the continuing violence in the western region of Darfur, despite the signing yesterday of a final peace accord between the government of Sudan and southern rebels. Women collect water at a communal pump in Kekabiya, in Sudan’s North Darfur state, November 17, 2004. (Reuters).
They are also concerned that both major parties to the accord, the National Islamic Front (NIF) (...)
Security Council says it will speedily consider peacekeepers for Sudan
Monday 10 January 2005 23:21
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10, 2005 (AP) — The U.N. Security Council said Monday it would speedily consider sending peacekeepers to Sudan to support a new peace deal and urged the new government of national unity to work actively to end the conflict in western Darfur.
A Sudanese artist in Juba drawing the Sudanese national flag over which a caption in Arabic reading ’yes for peace and love’ while a small boy stands by observing in Juba, Sudan, Sunday, Jan 9, 2005. (AP)..
If implemented, the (...)
Thousands in southern Sudan celebrate peace deal: United Nations
Monday 10 January 2005 21:30
NAIROBI, Jan 10 (AFP) — Thousands of people across towns in southern Sudan celebrated the landmark peace treaty signed at the weekend between the country’s main rebel group and Khartoum, a United Nations official said. Southern Sudanese celebrate in the streets of Khartoum yesterday’s landmark peace deal, ending more than two decades of civil war in southern Sudan, Jan 10, 2005. (AFP).
"There were celebration all over towns in southern Sudan," a UN official told AFP by phone from the (...)
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