Southern Sudan: Overcoming obstacles to durable solutions now – building stability for the future

After two and a half decades of war, the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of the Republic of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army brought relative peace to Southern Sudan and provided the opportunity for some reconstruction. With less than five months left before the referendums in which Southern Sudanese will vote on southern independence and people living in Abyei on the status of Abyei in January 2011, the north, the international community, and not least the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), face many challenges.