Prayers for Sudan
On 9 July 2011, Sudan became two separate States as South Sudan was created six months after the 8 January referendum in which the voters of southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to create a separate State. The creation of South Sudan is a cause of neither joy nor sorrow but needs to be accompanied by our prayers as the history of Sudan since its independence from England in 1956 has been one of violence and of missed opportunities for reconciliation and cooperation. The rare occasions when there was no massive fighting going on — basically the 10 years from the Addis Agreement of 1972 to 1982 when the North-South civil war started again, and the 2005-2010 period after the most recent peace accord — were not used to develop cooperative structures nor to develop a socio-economic system that would facilitate integration. The conflict in Darfur, western Sudan, which started in 2003 continues
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