Independent South Sudan

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2016

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Cambridge University Press

South Sudan became independent on July 9, 2011, six-and-a-half years after the signing of the CPA and almost ten years after the Machakos Protocol. The event was celebrated with a remarkable assembly of statesmen, politicians, and celebrities. Footage of ecstatic Southerners traveled across the globe. But while secession was symbolically important, independence proved to be a process rather than a single event, one that had started decades earlier and has continued since 2011. Upon independence, the government of South Sudan was embroiled in a multitude of crises. Sudan and South Sudan almost went to war during negotiations over the terms of secession; oil production stopped and battles were fought. Negotiations continued until early 2013, and central issues were unresolved when a power struggle within the SPLM/A became the focus of attention. Following a government crisis in the summer, political tension escalated and, after an ultimatum from the internal opposition, exploded into large-scale violence in mid December. Civil war had returned to South Sudan. The familiar pattern of fighting, destruction, displacement, and negotiations ensued. Foreign observers were not alone in wondering whether independence had been a mistake and if the new state would ever function.

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