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Settlement of the Southern Sudanese Problem: Its Significance and Implications for the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

Yassin El-Ayouty
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On 27 and 28 February 1972, the news media carried reports from Addis Abada that the Government of the Sudan and the South Sudan Liberation Front had reached an agreement settling the problem of the southern Sudan. The importance of this news to the Sudan, Africa, the Organization of African Unity, the Arab world, and the United Nations lies in the fact that an armed uprising in the largest state in Africa seems to have come to an end by peaceful means.

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African Issues , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 1972 , pp. 10 - 12
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1972 

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page 10 note * The agreement officially ending the Sudanese civil war was officially signed on 27 March 1972 in Addis Ababa by the Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Mr Mansour Khaled, and Major General Joseph Lagu, the southern Sudanese leader, in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.

page 11 note * In this presentation, the OAU, as a term, refers to the following arrangements which were used in connection with the Sudanese settlement: (a) the mediation of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; (b) the consultations which took place between Haile Selassie and other African Heads of State and Government; (c) the role played by the political offices and officers of the OAU Secretariat; and (d) the Chairman of the all-African Council of Churches, a non-governmental organization accredited to both the OAU and the World Council of Churches.