Cabinet Reshuffle Threatens CPA

From the BBC (October 17, 2007):

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) members quit the cabinet last Thursday, complaining key elements of a 2005 peace deal were being ignored.

But the group says it will not rejoin government until all demands are met.

As well as requesting a cabinet reshuffle, the SPLM wants boundary demarcations and the redeployment of northern troops from the south to be implemented.

There have been fears that the crisis could jeopardise the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the 21-year north-south civil war.


Please keep this situation in your prayers. If the CPA collapses, Africa's longest running civil war, one that has claimed 1.5 million lives, could begin anew.

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Important Site News

When www.shoutloudnow.org began with the intention of being a clearing house where churches who are in ministry with the people of Sudan could share resources for action, learning, and worship. It then kind of morphed into a Sudan news site, followed by s summer of limited postings.

That is all about to change.

This summer, I was blessed to travel to Washington to the embassy of Southern Sudan to meet with a group of the lost boys of Sudan, a group of concerned United Methodists, and the ambassador of Southern Sudan to begin what we hope will be a new ministry in that part of the country which will help to provide infrastructure improvements in Southern Sudan and help raise awareness of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the Sudanese Civil War. The CPA represents a fragile truce in Southern Sudan, and it it fails, a second Darfur could happen in the south. We even made plans in this meeting to try to schedule a meeting with Salva Kiir, the president of Southern Sudan.

This blog will be the place where I will post information as it becomes available about this nacent ministry. Stay tuned.