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11.04.20
African Business Magazine: Sudanese peace deal boosts hopes of South Sudan’s oil future
It was to the sound of South Sudanese and Sudanese music that Sudan’s transitional government signed a peace agreement with various rebel groups operating on the peripheries of its vast and mostly arid territory in early October.
The landmark deal was signed in South Sudan’s capital city Juba, reflecting a history of conflict and occasional cooperation between two countries that were joined together until South Sudan’s independence in 2011, following decades of civil war.
Many of the armed groups that were locked in low-level conflict with Sudan’s former dictator Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in 2019, were supported and created by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), once a South Sudanese guerilla movement and now South Sudan’s regular army…
