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From: Tsegai Emmanuel (emmanuelt40@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 - 19:36:28 EDT
African think-tank predicts possible "painful split" of Sudan into two
countries
Wednesday 18 August 2010.
August 17, 2010 (JUBA) – The most internationally recognized African
think-tank, the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), has warned of a
possible painful split of Sudan into two independent countries.
In a press release issued on Tuesday the Center for Conflict Resolution will
organize a seminar in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday next week to
discuss the future of the country. “As Sudan faces the prospect of possibly
being split into two countries and giving painful birth to a new nation –
with a referendum in South Sudan scheduled for January 2011 – world-leading
scholar-diplomats on Africa’s largest country will be speaking at a meeting
hosted by the Centre for Conflict Resolution."
Sudanese scholar-diplomat and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on
the Prevention of Genocide, Professor Francis Deng, will be previewing his
new book entitled, ‘Sudan at the Brink: Self-Determination and National
Unity.’
The meeting, which is chaired by Ambassador James Jonah, former UN
Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, will also be addressed by Dr
Jan Pronk, a former UN special representative for Sudan and former minister
for development cooperation in the Netherlands, and Ambassador Richard
Williamson, a former US special envoy to Sudan.
"The speakers will consider the implications of South Sudan’s forthcoming
self-determination vote while a host of key post-referendum issues – such as
security arrangements, sharing of water assets and oil revenues, and
decisions about currency and national capitals – remain unresolved," reads
the press release.
(ST)
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