Sudan at Risk of Tearing Itself Apart

摘要

Fears are growing that Sudan is heading for renewed conflict that could tear the African oil producer apart. With national elections scheduled for April and a referendum on southern independence due before January 2011, political tensions and resurgent violence are threatening the 2005 peace deal between the northern- based National Congress Party (NCP) and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war. Although the western Darfur region