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2004-01-15 Africa: East

Bashir warns SPLA over southern administration

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-15 12:39:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The three slices of territory have been the source of dispute since the 1972 agreement that ended Sudan's first civil war. The government agreed to hold a plebiscite in the regions, but never did. One region (Abyei) is the center of oil operations; a second, Hofrat an-Nahas, has been the center of primitive copper mining, and the third near the Ethiopian border is a center of primitive gold mining and a potentially rich agricultural region. If an honest plebiscite were held the three regions would go to the South. Khartoum's riverain Arabs could never permit that.

Posted by Tancred 2004-1-15 8:39:34 AM|| 2004-1-15 8:39:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The three slices of territory have been the source of dispute since the 1972 agreement that ended Sudan's first civil war. The government agreed to hold a plebiscite in the regions, but never did. One region (Abyei) is the center of oil operations; a second, Hofrat an-Nahas, has been the center of primitive copper mining, and the third near the Ethiopian border is a center of primitive gold mining and a potentially rich agricultural region. If an honest plebiscite were held the three regions would go to the South. Khartoum's riverain Arabs could never permit that.

Posted by Tancred 2004-1-15 8:39:34 AM|| 2004-1-15 8:39:34 AM|| Front Page Top

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