SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Chatham House - Is the Juba Peace Agreement a Turning Point for Sudan?
For Sudan’s “cash-strapped” government to implement the Juba peace agreement, former UK ambassador to Sudan Dame Rosalind Marsden calls for Sudan’s regional and international partners to provide “sustained and generous support,” including removal from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list, “which is preventing debt relief, access to concessionary loans and large-scale foreign investment.”
Marsden notes that the agreement faces numerous challenges, citing: the fragility of a civilian-military transitional government, distrust and competition between the signatory movements and parties, increasing insecurity in many parts of Sudan and resistance from groups such as illegal settlers who see their interests being threatened.
Marsden adds that the key test for Sudan is whether signatory movements and other revolutionary forces can unite to “deliver the dividends of peace for the victims of Sudan’s conflicts, and embrace inclusion rather than tribalism and narrow political affiliation.”