…As The South Moves Towards Another Conflict With the North.

That’s the gist of a new Reuters report that highlights the rearming of South’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) ahead of April’s national elections that the group has already pulled out of participating in.

Oil Plant in Sudan
Sudanese Oil Plant

The Article:

TEREKEKA, Sudan (Reuters) – With southern Sudan stumbling towards independence next year, the Chinese oil workers in Africa’s biggest country are bracing for trouble. For southern villagers like Maria Jande, trouble is already here.

Dinka tribesmen briefly abducted Jande, her family and more than a dozen other women and children in a raid last month that destroyed crops and food stores and killed five men from her Mundari tribe.

It’s a far cry from the hopes that sprung up in southern Sudan five years ago, when a peace deal with the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum in Sudan’s north promised to end a generation of conflict.

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