Official Language and Symbol: Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Implementations
Official Language and Symbol – 2005
The language provision of the 2005 CPA was incorporated in the Interim Constitution. The constitution came into effect on 9 July 2005.[fn]”The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, March 2006.[/efn_note] As such, there was no discrimination against the use of any language at any levels of government. Nevertheless, it was only on 2 October 2005 that the Sudan’s National Unity Government that included the NCP, SPLM and other parties approved English as an official language, together with Arabic.1
Official Language and Symbol – 2006
No developments observed this year.
Official Language and Symbol – 2007
No developments observed this year.
Official Language and Symbol – 2008
The constitutional provisions as well as the adoption of English as the official language of National Unity government confirms the implementation of the CPA provision related to language. However, it was only in June 2008 that the National Assembly passed the National Council for Developing and Promoting the National Languages Bill.1
Official Language and Symbol – 2009
No developments observed this year.
Official Language and Symbol – 2010
No developments observed this year.
Official Language and Symbol – 2011
No developments observed this year. With the secession of southern Sudan as an independent state on 9 July 2011, provisions related to language became obsolete.