Keeping the Sudan United through development

“Keeping the Sudan United through development: A must
alternative for NCP and SPLM led government of
national Unity.”

By John Pangech

Oct 7, 2005 — In a country that has experienced such high levels of
systematic division and underdevelopments, which
culminated in the wars, the need for reconciliation
and healing through development of previously
marginalized must be high on the agenda of both the
government of national unity and government of South
Sudan and the states level of governance. But, I would
like to argue that “reconciliation and unity will not
be possible without a radical physical infrastructural
development of Ten States in South Sudan, Nuba
mountains areas, Southern Blue Nile state, Eastern,
Western and otherwise Wadi Halfa areas of the Sudan.

If we consider the Sudan Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA) document as a bases being represented
by various role players today. One will argue that for
reconciliation and Unity of the Sudan to be all
possible, the many versions of history of
marginalization of the majority of Sudanese must be
addressed. Marginalization of the majority masses of
the Sudan in the past has a profound effect on how we
perceive ourselves, others, equality, justice and
unity of the Sudan today.

The need for a deep re-examination of the foundational
bases of the Unity of the Sudan, sets has recently
been stressed by the formation of the first ever
government of the national unity and more significant
contributions to the debates must continue. This need
is in my opinion, welcome since it shows a real growth
of the debates not only at a quantitative level but
also at qualitative level, marking a turning point in
its development. More ever, I quite agree with the
formation of the government of the national unity that
to recast foundations, does not undermine existing CPA
in debates, but merely provides it with a new
foundation which is both broader and more precise in
the classical manners. I would like to add only those
good foundations that can also help in better
evaluating good work and showing more easily the
irrelevance of the irrelevant work. The main aim here
to provide a brief outline and discussion of some
epistemological problems related to the presence, role
and meaning of debates on the unity of the Sudan in
social and political discourse; issues which of
course, are of particular and central interest for the
debate sets, to evaluate these problems in their
generality is a formidable enterprise, certainly
beyond the limits of this paper. What will be done
here is by far in regard to depth of the topics that
is of national importance.

I present and briefly argue in the favuor of the
following thesis:

1. Keeping a national unity is both a good and a
sufficient basis for the national diversity and all
the meaningful result of the Sudan can be
reinterpreted in term of equality and progress. This
perspective can also help in appreciating better and
in isolating the innovations that have arisen and
developed outside classical approaches. In order to do
this, a certain number of distinctions among such
notions as justice and equality, balance development
and removal of hatreds will be needed among all
Sudanese.

2. The formal democratic institutional framework
containing human rights culture in term of sustenance
of building houses to house the masses is relevant and
fit well with intended piece of reality in CPA
document, a step towards greater powerful Sudan in the
continent of Africa.

3. The conceptual analysis of fundamental unity is
important in order to clarify and distinguish between
different aspects of debates. The CPA in this
direction seems to suggest that it might be useful to
develop all part of marginalized Sudan to make Unity
attractive, capturing quantitative features that are
not capture by the many past old regimes that had
governed the Sudan since 1956.

4. Developed all states progressively in term of
infrastructures both physical and telecommunication or
otherwise.

5. Reduced the level of poverty of minds and wants.

This point of view if accepted would obviously provide
an immediate foundation and justification for our
united states of Sudan. In my opinion, this commitment
is by no means required in a sound foundation whose
actual development is historically independent from
marginalization. This view seems to be important with
respect to the liberation movement commitments, and
should be acceptable also to those who are against
national reconciliation or unity of the Sudan.

At best, the CPA is grounded in an economical
character. One can easily see that what has been
documented has a straight forward application in the
definition on the path the government must follow.
When the government shifts its attention from CPA to
non-implementation, however, we will encounter more
problems which will have serious implication on the
Unity of the Sudan.

Again, it seems useful to draw attention as follows:

1. The aim of government of national unity and
government of South Sudan is to reduce to the minimum
and eventually eliminate unbalance development in
terms and predicates sense of belonging to all
Sudanese citizens. Therefore, both the NCP and the
SPLM led government of national unity must avoid
non-delivery tactics and excuses right now.

2. CPA has to be taken seriously by both parties as an
essential document that can keep the Sudan united. The
CPA provides new domains of knowledge in a precise way
in other domains. In that, the use of CPA in new
domains will brings about equality and progress for
the Sudan. At best as CPA stand, it stresses the
desire of obtaining the highest degree of rapid and
radical development and better life for all in the
Sudan. Indeed, while position stresses the fact in
order to reach this goal the GONU, GOSS and States may
be forced to deal with any clashing methodology
undermining the progress of constructing roads,
education, health care facilities and housings.
Therefore, meeting dateline in term of delivery is
quite fundamentals. Failure of which will have serious
consequences for the country honestly.

* John Pangech is a Sudanese freelance researcher in the field of business ethics and development in Pretoria South Africa.