Lazaro Sumbeiwyo and John Danforth
The world’s
attention was rightly seized by the terrible conflict in Sudan’s
western region of Darfur, in which hundreds of thousands of civilian
lives were lost. It is often forgotten, however, that the tragedy of
Darfur came after Sudan’s north-south conflict, Africa’s longest
running civil war, in which more than 2m people were killed. On Friday
it is five years since the historic Comprehensive Peace Agreement was
signed between north and south Sudan, yet there is a real threat of
all-out war returning to Sudan and still no permanent resolution to the
Darfur conflict.