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Cease Fire – 2011

Between 9 and 15 January 2011, a referendum took place in South Sudan. Following the referendum, South Sudan became an independent country 9 July 2011. The security situation, however, remained an issue even after the referendum. According to CPA update from the UNMIS, on 4 May 2011, the 141st CJMC meeting was held in Khartoum. In the meeting, CJMC requested CPC to approach the Joint Defense Board (JDB) to form a Board of Inquiry to investigate the 1 May clash in the Abyei Area resulted from the invasion of SAF. This was the breach of ceasefire agreement. On 10 May 2011 CJMC meeting, the status of SPLA in the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan States was discussed because the war was breaking out in the North before the independence of the South and thus before the end of the CPA-period.¹ Once southern Sudan became an independent state, all the security mechanism established by the 2005 CPA either became obsolete or dissolved.

1. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, May 2011; Johan Brosché, “The Crises Continue. Sudan’s Remaining Conflicts,” ISPI – Working Paper no. 41, accessed May 21, 2012, http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/WP41_2011.pdf.