Sudan: Public Showdown Exposes Widening Chasm in Sudan

Exactly two years ago, the Sudan government and the southern rebels Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) struck a peace accord, halting a bloody north-south war in Africa's largest country. The historic signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) brokered by Kenya in January 9, 2005, in Nairobi, silenced the guns in one of the longest armed conflicts in the continent that spanned over two decades.