Sudan: The Southern Sudan pie

[A special investigative journalism assignment fully supported by the Taco Kuiper Grant for Investigative Journalism] Everyone wants a piece of the pie that is Juba, South Sudan. Almost a year before the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed in Nairobi Kenya intense lobbying had begun. The signing of the CPA on 9th January 2005 unleashed [...]

NEW NATION: Sudan’s arms race unraveled

There is no doubt that both North and Southern Sudanese are poles apart in terms of cultural socialization, religious orientation and political ideology. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA signed in Nairobi ended two decades of bloody hostilities and set in motion a long process of peace, nation building and a calendar for self determination. [...]