ابيي تقترب من ان تكون جنوبية

Quote: IF, AS THE LEGENDARY NGOK DINKA CHIEF, DENG MAJOK, once claimed, the thread that stitches the north and south of the Sudan together runs through Abyei,1 then this narrow patch of land now threatens to unravel the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and, with it, the rest of the country. So contentious an issue has it been that it was not fully resolved by the CPA, and it became one of the first items of business for the newly inaugurated Presidency of the Government of National Unity (GONU) in July 2005. The Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) was created by the Abyei Protocol of the CPA to make a ‘final and binding’ decision concerning the definition of the area. The two main partners in the GONU, the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), bound themselves in advance to accept the decision of the ABC. The implementation of that decision has been a test not only of their commitment to the CPA as a whole, but of their intentions during the six-year interim period. There is a growing feeling, not only within the SPLM leadership but within the newly created Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), that the Abyei Area could be the flashpoint that brings the country back to war.