Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
June 12, 2008 (JUBA) — Sudan has begun efforts to employ more southerners in its civil service to ease northern domination of goverment posts, clearing a stumbling block in a north-south peace deal, an official said on Thursday.
Around 1,500 southern candidates were being interviewed for positions in June, he said, part of a long-delayed move agreed under the 2005 deal that ended two decades of civil war between the government in Khartoum and southern rebels.
“This is the first time they have tried to correct the imbalances in the civil service as promised,” said Moses Machar, the head of the country’s new national civil service commission, and a southerner.
According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement(CPA), Sudan’s government agreed to give at least 20 percent of middle and top level civil service positions to southerners.
But the commission tasked with pushing through the changes was only set up in August and the integration of northern and southern civil servants has fallen far behind schedule.
Southern leaders welcomed the latest move.
“Our people went to war just because power was not shared equally,” said Anne Itto, head of the southern sector for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), the dominant party in the south.
“The national government never took more than about one per cent (of southerners).”
Both Khartoum and semi-autonomous south Sudan blame each other for stalling on parts of the 2005 CPA which set up a coalition government and shared oil wealth.
Two million died in the two-decade-long civil war fought by Sudan’s government and the SPLM, a conflict that was complicated by ethnicity, ideology and oil.
(Reuters)
Monye Jur
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Even though if thousands from southerners were interviewed and given top and middle positions in Khartoum government, still its too late and will not lead to the unity of Sudan. That moved should have been earlier and even before the CPA.
Deng Ajok Deng
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Anyway, It is not a foolish idea to employ the southerners in sudan civil service for the unity to be attractive. If they have that dream in their minds, then let us agree and we shall see what will happen next.
As we know, this step will bring a cold disaster. So, brothers and sisters, you need to think before you enter to this time being unity. We need to know what are the conditions given to those southerners on their employment basis. Also, to those who will be employed there, you need to know politically the relationship between the arabs and the blacks. Then, ‘sleep with one open’. Please! do not forget the different between money and politic, and what are their relationships?.
Otherwise, may our Almighty Father guide our brothers and sisters who are going to work there in the civil service of sudan in order not to sell out their brothers and sisters who are still in mourning.
Thank for that idea.
yours
Cool Hero
Majak-da
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Good move
This is our nation and we need to enjoy the true taste of our land.
Infact, employement should have been done equally since Sudan became independent in 1956. The recent development to employ more Southerners is an indication that Khartoum is flatering and has been unjust for decades. This is why SPLM/A fought for 22 years-at least the world can understand!
Buying unity or not; Southerners need to take up this chance without hesitation because it is right by birth, pull stop!
Yaak Barach
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Hi Maganydam,
it is due to naive people like you that we southerners have suffered so much under jallaba dominance.
Back to the article,
a real son of south sudan will view this latest move just as an attempt by the enemy to buy an unattractive and impossible unity. Why did they(jallaba) discriminate against us in the first place or even after the peace agreement? Qualified individuals from the south deserved to have been employed in this sector, instead of semi-educated arabs running high offices.
Anyway it is a welcomed development but it is not going to change the altitudes of real patriotic sons and daughters of south sudan towards the enemy.
Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Am here requesting Sudan Tribune Director and Editor to allow people to post their opinions/comments in fact i can see that most of comments are being block,and i also advice those individuals who are misusing the web to show same respect to everyone whether readers nor a leaders who is presented on a article.I hope everything will move with respect and tolerence.
Je veuillez inviter votre bonté pour rendre chacun le sentir juste sur cet emplacement du Soudan Tribune, j’espère le respect montré dans toutes nos idées quotidiennes et réponds,merci beaucoup
Good step for real future of our people.But people should not be abuse with other laws in fact we have different beliefs.Therefore this idea of Beshir will bring a fair future,but i warn that this should not be done as a sign of campaign at current stage because know things are coming in 2011.
logic is back honest to all,fresh in mind and responsible in view
loyei
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
HELLO BELOVE SOUTHERNERS, I THINK WE ARE RIGHT TO ENJOING SUCH BENEFITS, BUT WE NEED TO CALCULATE EVERY STEP OF ANY GOOD FROM SIDE OF NIF GOVERNMENT, BECAUSE WE DON’T NEED TO GO BACK BROTHERS AGAIN IN SUFFERING.
SECONDLY IF THESE CHANCES IS THERE LET US MAKE SURE IT WILL NOT CREATE BORDER OR DISRELATIONSHIP ON OUR TARGET AS PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN.
LONG LIVE SOUTH SUDAN
LONG LIVE OUR UNITY
Uncle Louish
Sudan civil service begin to employ more Southerners
Dear Southerners,
Whereas it is encouraging to hear of such advances from the central government, Let’s not forget the liberalism of the Arabs who lure people with wealth. Think back about the 1972 Addis-ababa agreement, the Abuja agreement, the 1998 Khartoum agreement and the recent Darfur agreements which have long been dishonoured due to reasons attributed to wealth on one hand and political dysfunction on the other.
Before we praise Bashir for his offers,let’s not forget the tasks that lay ahead and let’s not imagine that unity is being made attractive. Before hand we have election and referendum which require lucid analysis with limited or no rush to conclusions engulfing our economic status as Southerners otherwise take time to justify our self governance in order to reach the limits of international politics as well as compromising with Bashir’s political ideological outlook on Southerners.
However, we can remain, more over, always vigilant and fight for good course just as we did for the last 21 years!
Be on guard Pliz!!!!
Uncle Louish, the humble Gent, can be reached at: [email protected]