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- President Omer Al-Bashir, left, and President Salva Kiir, right, gesture after the signing ceremony of a deal on economic and security agreements on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in Addis Ababa (AP)
Negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan after the conflict over Heglig / Panthou in April 2012 were chaired - as before - by former South African President Thabo Mbeki under the auspices of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP).
Also on the AUHIP were former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya and former President of Nigeria Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar. The talks were held in Ethiopia mostly in Addis Ababa.
The mandate of the AUHIP is to facilitate negotiations relating to South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in July 2011 including disputes over oil, security, citizenship, assets, and their common border.
- Pagan Amum (left), chief negotiator from South Sudan, lead mediator for the African Union, Thabo Mbeki (centre) and Sudan’s head negotiator Idriss Abdu Qadir , attend African Union-led talks between Sudan and South Sudan in Addis Ababa on March 13, 2012. (Getty)
Border Disputes: The AU has appointed a high-level panel of African experts to produce a non-binding advisory opinion on how the disputes should be resolved. It is Chaired by a former member of the International Court of Justice, Judge Abdul Koroma.
As part of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement the two sides agreed that the boundary between the northern and southern states of Sudan would be as it was on Sudan’s independence as at 1 January 1956 despite their being no authoritative map with the detail to show conclusively where the boundary lay.
- Bashir (R) and his South Sudanese counterpart Kiir (2ndL) meet at the Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa/AFP
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- Saturday 12 May 2012
May 11, 2012 (JUBA) – The Vice President of South Sudan, Riek Machar said Friday that only 40% of the international border between Sudan and newly-independent South Sudan has been agreed in principle, dismissing Khartoum’s claim that 80% (...)
- Sunday 2 September 2012
September 1, 2012 (JUBA) - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday urged Sudan and South Sudan to expedite and finalize their oil agreement and other related financial arrangements to pave the way for immediate the (...)
- Friday 28 September 2012
September 27, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) Agreement on certain economic mattersAgreement on post service benefits: Sudan - South SudanAgreement on security arrangementsAgreement on trade: Sudan - South SudanNationals agreementOil agreement (...)
- Monday 22 October 2012
October 21, 2012 (JUBA) - South Africa on Sunday pledged its resolve to support a peace proposal by the African Union High Level Implementation (AUHIP) which aims to end the long-running dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over the (...)
- Tuesday 8 January 2013
January 7, 2013 (JUBA) – The leadership of South Sudan has asked the British government to provide maps that will indicate some of the colonial borderlines between South Sudan and Sudan, revealed the Vice President, Riek Machar, upon (...)
- Monday 15 October 2012
October 14, 2012 (JUBA) - Leading officials from South Sudan’s governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) have admitted compelling conditions behind the signing of the cooperation agreement with the government of neigbouring (...)
- Saturday 20 October 2012
October 19, 2012 (JUBA) - President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the Governors of South Sudan’s ten stated to conduct extensive public lecturers to explain the benefits of the cooperation agreement he signed on 27 September with (...)
- Friday 12 October 2012
Petition Letter to H.E. 1st Lt. General Salva Kiir Mayardit President of the Republic of South Sudan
CC: South Sudan National Legislative Assembly
CC: Africa Union High Level Implementation Panel
CC: United Nations Security Council (...)
- Thursday 6 September 2012
September 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir on Wednesday approved the credentials of South Sudan’s first ambassador to his country, Mayan Dut Wol, and agreed to the resumption of direct flights between Khartoum (...)
- Tuesday 24 July 2012
July 23, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) — Attached is the full text of the propositions made by the the government of South Sudan to settle the outstanding issues they two countries are negotiating in the Ethiopian capital.
"South Sudan’s proposed (...)
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