The National, Regional and International Factors Leading to the Separation of South Sudan July2011

Abstract

This study aims to identify, diagnose and analyze all the historical turns that accompanied the Sudanese crisis. Sudan has a strategic location at both regional and international levels and it has many natural wealths as well as vast areas that come at the ninth position in terms of grading.

This crisis was not known to the public and it came on the front of the international arena only when General Basheer and his group assumed power through military coup in 1989.  With the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union(USSR), many local, regional and international powers appropriated these factors to expand the problem and to blaze the fire of the crisis.

The separation of the South Sudan has been engineered by many Sudanese people, then many outside power intervened. The Sudanese political parties, both in government and opposition, have never come into agreement ever since independence. This is why all negotiations between the two parties never succeeded beginning with the Round Table Agreement in Addis Ababa 1965, till Nefasha Agreement 2005. This particular one has prepared the local, regional and international grounds for the decision of the Self-determination of the South Sudan that resulted in the emergence of a new state in July  7, 2011.