Clashes in South Sudan: Precursor of Things to Come?

The governments of Sudan and semi-autonomous South Sudan continue to stumble unconvincingly towards a contentious referendum planned for January 2011, with the fallout from recent national elections doing little to allay fears of a return to significant conflict. The Arab-based north, and the largely Christian and Animist ex-rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), fought a two-decade civil war in south Sudan that ended in 2005, with a so-called 'Comprehensive Peace Agreement' (CPA). Since then, the main ruling (north-dominated) National Congress Party (NCP) and the SPLM have been uneasy bedfellows in a national coalition government, with the former taking the

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