Agreement
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, 2005
The Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Naivasha, ending the twenty-two-year second Sudanese civil war and providing for a referendum on Southern Sudan's self-determination.
What happened
On 9 January 2005 the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA) signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), ending the second Sudanese civil war of 1983–2005 and opening a six-year Interim Period beginning 9 July 2005.[1] The Machakos Protocol of the CPA, agreed earlier in the peace process, gave the people of Southern Sudan the explicit right to self-determination "through a Referendum to determine their future status...internationally monitored...organised jointly by the Government of Sudan and the SPLM/A, for the people of Southern Sudan to: confirm the unity of the Sudan by voting to adopt the system of government established under the Peace Agreement; or to vote for secession."[2]
Sources for this page
Each number marks a specific claim. Notes give the source, its locator and how it relates to the claim.
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Claim: On 9 January 2005 the National Congress Party and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ending the second Sudanese civil war of 1983–2005 and opening a six-year Interim Period beginning 9 July 2005, during which the two parties formed a Government of National Unity and Southern Sudan gained regional autonomy.
- European Union Election Observation Mission, Final Report: Southern Sudan Referendum, 9–15 January 2011 (European Union Election Observation Mission, 2011) link, Political context. Source record
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Claim: The Machakos Protocol of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement gave the people of Southern Sudan the right to self-determination "through a Referendum to determine their future status...internationally monitored...organised jointly by the Government of Sudan and the SPLM/A, for the people of Southern Sudan to: confirm the unity of the Sudan by voting to adopt the system of government established under the Peace Agreement; or to vote for secession," citing Articles 1.3 and 2.5 of the Protocol.
- European Union Election Observation Mission, Final Report: Southern Sudan Referendum, 9–15 January 2011 (European Union Election Observation Mission, 2011) link, Political context, footnote 1. Source record