Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 48

28-November-2005

Sudan

Border Commission Established To Define Northern, Southern Sudan

Sudans President 'Umar al-Bashir has issued a decree forming the border commission which will define the boundary between northern and southern Sudan. The January Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Khartoum government and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) defined the border between the two as that delineated on 1 January 1956 when Sudan...