The road to referendum in South Sudan and why it needs help to boost its economy

By Anyang’ Nyong’o

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) government has, over the last two years, focused on delivering peace dividends to the Southern Sudanese people. After more than 50 years of fighting for self-determination, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed between Juba and Khartoum in 2005, finally set the framework for settling this long-standing dispute in which the freedom of the South from political oppression by the North was the key contentious issue.