ISS Seminar: Sudan at the Crossroads: Elections, Abyei and the Darfur Conflict

Date: 2009-08-05 to Invalid date

ISS Seminar: Sudan at the Crossroads: Elections, Abyei and the Darfur Conflict
Pretoria, 5 August 2009

 

Hosted by the African Security Analysis Programme

 

Presenters:

• Mr Said Alkhateeb, Director General of the Strategic Studies Centre, Khartoum

• Dr John G N Yoh, Department of Political Science, UNISA

 

With less than two years remaining of the 6-year interim period of the transitional arrangements under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Government of National Unity, the National Congress Party and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army are likely face some of the most difficult choices and challenges to the stability and transformation of Sudan. Important challenges include the holding in 2010 of the first national elections in over 20 years, the fate of the oil-rich Abyei area and the Transitional States, and the Darfur conflict. Whether the South decides to stay united with the North or to secede will depend on how the process leading up to 2011 is managed. The speakers will address these issues, highlighting the progress so far and the challenges that lie ahead.

 

Date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Time: 09h30 (tea/coffee);
10h00 (seminar starts);
12h00 (seminar ends, followed by a light lunch)

Venue: ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Tshwane (Pretoria)
(Parking in Brooklyn Mall and ABSA court)

 

RSVP: Ms Maria Maluleka, Fax: (012) 460 0997/8; E-mail: [email protected]

 

Please note that discussions occur under Chatham House rules, i.e. no attribution without specific permission.

 

Seminar Documentation