Salvation and Peace Government from within Sudan until 1997

Abstract

The research sheds light on the efforts of the Sudanese government to end the second civil war in Sudan, by concluding political agreements with the leaders of the southern factions that broke away from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement led by Colonel John Garang, despite the awareness of all parties that signed the peace agreements of the difficulties that will face their practical implementation, as neither the government nor the southern factions that signed are able to cease fire in the south without involving John Garang and his military wing in the agreements, in addition to the lack of mutual trust between the two parties, as the government is unable to impose its conditions on the southern factions that signed the agreements, as they have forces stationed in locations under their control in the south, and all the factions that signed represent the separatist wing within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement before their secession from it in 1991, and in addition to that, there are those who believed that the leaders of the southern factions that signed the peace agreements had betrayed and sold out the cause of the south and its future in order to assume high positions in the central government. Keywords: Sudan, peace, Fashoda, political charter, IGAD, Khartoum agreement, salvation government.