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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sudanese President Makes An 'Oil For Unity ' Offer

Sudan Tribune (Paris)

Sudanese President Makes an 'Oil for Unity' Offer

17 December 2010

Khartoum — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir offered to let the South take the entire revenue from the country's oil wealth in return for a unity vote in the referendum that will take place in less than a month.
Under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the north and south are to split proceeds from oil produced in the South equally.
The Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) in control of the South has persistently accused the North of paying them less than the 50% stipulated in the peace accord.
Bashir made the proposal public during his meeting on Thursday with a visiting delegation of the African Union Peace and Security Council.
"We say if they choose unity, we are ready for the national government to give up its full share in the oil of the South to the government of the south," he said.
But Atem Garang who heads the SPLM bloc in the Sudanese parliament told the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV that the issue of unity is not oil related but rather a "matter of principle".
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He added that democratic transformation has not not occurred since the CPA was signed and that human rights are not preserved either.
This is not the first time the Sudanese leader makes such an offer. Last October he promised that the central government will pour billions in dollars for development projects in the South and will seek funding from any source including borrowing.
"As for the wealth sharing, we are ready to embrace the development of programs and projects adopted by the Unity Support Fund, in the areas of education, health, electricity, infrastructure, agricultural projects and manufacturing, until it reaches a level comparable to services provided in other states of Sudan," Bashir told lawmakers at the time.

The Sudanese president said that the government will seek funding for these projects from the national budget, grants or loans "even if it exceeded 100% of the oil revenue".
The statements reflect the general feeling about the inevitability of South Sudan's separation.
On Thursday, Bashir's assistant Nafie Ali Nafie said that efforts to campaign for unity have failed.
"No matter what we do we will reach this conclusion which will be recognized by the entire world... we must not deceive ourselves or cling to wishful thinking, we must resign to facts and realities," he said.
Nafie accused the SPLM of working to make secession the likely choice.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

South Sudan's Secession

South Sudan and independence

Pressing the north to let the south go

Pressure is mounting on the north to let Africa’s largest country be divided

Nov 11th 2010 | NAIROBI
THE American administration is pressing Omar al-Bashir’s Sudanese government in Khartoum to let the southern bit of his country become peacefully independent after a referendum due there on January 9th, when an overwhelming majority of southerners is expected to plump for secession. The iron-fisted Mr Bashir has promised to abide by the outcome of the vote. Yet he could still play plenty of tricks, both in the run-up to the vote and after it, with the aim of keeping as much of the oil-rich land between north and south and to ensure that the new country is a flop.
To help Mr Bashir keep his word, John Kerry, chairman of the American Senate’s foreign relations committee, recently flew to Khartoum with an offer from President Barack Obama: ensure a decent referendum in South Sudan and abide by its result and you will no longer be labelled a state sponsor of terror.
An early sign of Mr Bashir’s intentions will be the terms of citizenship he offers to the 1m-plus southerners living in the north. Another test is how he behaves in Darfur, a cauldron of violence. Yet the biggest issue to watch is Abyei, an oily strip of land straddling the north-south border and abutting Darfur. Abyei will have a separate referendum on which country to join, also on January 9th. The north has angered the south by suggesting that this vote should be delayed. The southerners say an agreement over Abyei is urgent. If there is no deal soon, war—say gloomsters—could resume.
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Peace has held since 2005 but both sides have been rearming. The south has bought Soviet-era weaponry from Ukrainian stockpiles. Some southern generals have grown rich and lazy on pilfered funds but their soldiers are still formidable bush fighters, easier to disperse than to defeat. The north has bumped up its Chinese weaponry and may have stoked tribal violence between Dinka, Murle and Nuer groups in the south to justify delaying the vote.
But China may no longer be an unqualified backer of Mr Bashir. It propped the president up through the worst of the killing in Darfur because it needed Sudanese oil. It now gets much less of its oil imports, only about 6%, from Sudan. Moreover, new oil finds around Lake Albert in Uganda and Congo have helped alter China’s thinking about the region. It will probably bid to build a pipeline, 1,400km (870 miles) long, to link South Sudan and the Lake Albert fields to a planned port north of Lamu, on the Kenyan coast, as well as parallel roads and railways. This could take years to complete. But South Sudan can be cautiously hopeful that a commercially minded China will not oppose its independence. On this score at least, America and China may be on the same side.
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