Awkward Peace in the Two Sudans

This book presents and analyzes the impacts of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the two fighting parties of Sudan, the North and the South, on displaced people of the country. It is a fact that the country was divided after six years into North and South. However, the crisis continues. The displaced still suffer in their journey to the original homes in the south. Little has been done to ameliorate their lives there with no infrastructure, education, health services or working opportunities. They were returned to flat or jungle lands without even sheltering homes. However, despite of the peaceful secession, time bombs are still ticking with borders conflicts, confused demarcation and flaring military clashes on oil rich lands. The focus in this study is on Abyei region that harbors both people of the south and the north, the Arab Cattlemen of Missyria Baggara and the Dinka Nok. Both claim that the land belong to them. Both survive on its water and savannah resources. Previous peaceful coexistence vanished with the secession and tribal war looms with the threat of obliteration for the Missyria Baggara were deprived of those resources. The Abyei agreement failed to achieve peace or better life for the Dinka returnees. The two governments are still locked in futile negotiations. It is more feasible that International intervention can be suitable to solve the problem. Perhaps without it, it inevitable that all-borders war will erupt again between the two countries. The displaced will be in between and the sufferings should be worse.