Southern Sudan Centre for Census Key Indicators for Southern Sudan. DFID Country Programme Evaluation. USIP Sudan: The current situation. Sudan faces challenges on many fronts, among them the ongoing crisis in Darfur, a fragile Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the North and South that ended decades of civil war, and significant local violence in the southern and central parts of the country. Heightening the already tense situation is the looming referendum in the South scheduled for January 2011 to determine whether the South will remain part of a united Sudan or secede. The U.S. Institute of Peace is engaging all of these issues in an effort to help build a more stable Sudan. The conflict in Darfur has devastated the region. As Darfur negotiations continue, the fragile peace between Sudan’s North and the South is holding on tenuously as the Sudanese people look ahead to the referendum on unity or southern secession.
The nationwide elections in April 2010 and the January 2011 referendum on southern secssion were a key milestones in the implementation of the CPA. More on Sudan. USIP Scenarios for Sudans Future. Al Jazeera A question of identity - Crossroads Sudan. As vote counting begins, the fate of Sudan's central region and its people remains in doubt. The Nuba tribe are set to become part of the north, but their allegiance remains with the south. While the Misseriya tribe in Abyei remain loyal to Khartoum, their status is still to be determined.
What happens between the tribes living in the border region of South Kordofan, which takes in Abyei and the Nuba mountains, could mean the difference between war and peace. They are literally caught in the middle and in the case of the Nuba, left in hostile territory. The Nuba are a group of 50 or more ethnic African tribes, numbering around 3.7 million people. The nomadic Misseriya, are another key tribe made up of more than one million people. The key to avoiding further bloodshed hangs largely on peace-building in the regions inhabited by the tribes, but there are already signs of trouble. Education Statistics 2009.