North, South Sudan Agree on Implementing Peace Deal

Source: Reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Representatives from Sudan's north and south have agreed to implement several disputed or neglected elements of a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of fighting, a U.S. envoy said on Wednesday.

Scott Gration, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, said the new agreement was the result of months of work discussing sticking points in the deal that included the long-delayed demarcation of the north-south border and security issues.

The 2005 deal ended one of Africa's longest wars. But tensions persist between the two sides as Sudan prepares for presidential, parliamentarian and other elections in 2010, followed by a referendum on southern secession in 2011.

North-south fighting has broken out three times in two oil-producing areas since the peace deal was signed in Kenya in 2005. Some 50,000 people lost their homes and dozens were killed in violence in Abyei town last year.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/08/19/world/international-us-sudan-usa-deal.html

What about our rich war merchants? What about our oil companies? Sheesh!
I hope the rest of the middle east is also infected with this Peace stuff :)...it could go pandemic :)
Just think what the world could do with no more war eating up our taxes? :)...maybe we could build some new schools, build more low income homes and add a few more parks and maybe even have health care for everyone! :P