Boundary Demarcation – 2018
2018
The R-ARCSS (Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan) stipulated the creation of two bodies to consider the composition and boundaries of states in South Sudan. The Independent Boundaries Commission (IBC) was to be appointed by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), within two weeks of R-ARCSS being signed to make recommendations regarding the “number of States of the Republic of South Sudan, their boundaries, [and] the composition and restructuring of the Council of States.” The Technical Boundary Committee (TBC) was also to be appointed by IGAD “immediately upon the signing of the Revitalised ARCSS… to define and demarcate the tribal areas of South Sudan as they stood on 1 January 1956.”
IGAD and the Troika (the US, UK and Norway) nominated members for the TBC, which met on December 6, 2018, in Juba but then adjourned for the year.[1]
[1] “TBC holds its inaugural meeting in Juba,” Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, December 6, 2018, https://www.jmecsouthsudan.com/index.php/media-center/news/item/397-tbc-hold-its-inaugural-meeting-in-juba