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SPLM faction wants to end political partnership -Sudan’s NCP

October 12, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP) of President Omar al-Bashir on Friday criticised the decision by former southern rebels to withdraw from the Khartoum government, accusing them of selling out to foreign interests.

“The heart of the problem is that a group within the SPLM wants to end our partnership,” the northern NCP’s number two Nafi Ali Nafi told an overnight news conference.

“This group thinks that in allying itself with foreign parties (the United States) it can destroy our political project.”

Former rebels from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) announced it was pulling out of the government on Thursday because of what it called Khartoum’s failure to honour a 2005 peace accord which ended a more than two-decade civil war.

The SPLM said key problems were the failure to withdraw northern troops from the south, the fate of the disputed oil-rich region of Abiye and “the evolution of democracy in Sudan,” adding that the group would return to government once the differences were resolved.

Nafi acknowledged an “impasse” over Abyei but said 87.4 percent of northern troops had pulled back from the south while southern forces had only withdrawn 6.7 percent of their men from the north.

Another Congress leader said that in the main the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the two sides in 2005 was making good progress.

Sayed al-Khatib said: “The main merit of the CPA is that it allowed for war to stop. There has not been a single gunshot since 2005.”

The south-north war had lasted 21 years and caused at least 1.5 million casualties.

The withdrawal has hit preparations for talks due in Libya later this month on the troubled western region of Darfur amid reports that Khartoum forces and their allied Janjaweed militias have intensified attacks on the rebels, including the SPLM — the only faction to have signed a peace deal.

The October 27 talks in the Libyan resort of Syrte is the latest international effort to end a four-year-old war which the UN estimates has killed at least 200,000 people.

(AFP)

5 Comments

  • Henry Wande
    Henry Wande

    SPLM faction wants to end political partnership -Sudan’s NCP
    I think the Northern elit is getting the massage now. It is clear no more fulling around. It is upto them to choose between Independant NOW and 2011. We did not take to arm strugle to end up at CPA as a second class citizens. Comrades, let us walk with our heads up.

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  • Gatluak Latjor
    Gatluak Latjor

    SPLM faction wants to end political partnership -Sudan’s NCP

    I think the south should declare the independence at this time. And its boundaries should include the Blue Nile and Nuba mountains.The Jalaba Nation should be left alone, it will never understand.

    Gatluak Latjor.

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  • Mou Magok
    Mou Magok

    SPLM faction wants to end political partnership -Sudan’s NCP
    WHERE IS CPA IMPLEMENTATION

    Hi,
    Mr. Nafi Ali Nafi, you have brought a very different report on withdrawal of Sudan army forces (SAF) compare to what Mr. President Bashir said during his visit to Italy. He said 86 percent but today you mentioned something different like 87.4 percent.Now what are you waiting for other 14 percent and your 13.6 percent in South whilst the CPA is already signed?

    Please don’t lye

    Thanks,

    Yirol boy

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