Abstract
On September 1, 2011, new fighting broke out in Blue Nile State only two months after the independence of South Sudan. Mechanisms to secure an agreement on political and security arrangements between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) broke down. A provisional agreement that would have allowed the northern branch of the SPLM (SPLM-North) to operate as a political party in Sudan was not endorsed by Sudanese president Omer al-Bashir. The popular consultation process to determine the future status of Blue Nile State was aborted, and President Bashir declared an emergency in the state. Finally, the state governor, Malik Agar, joined the rebellion that had started a few months earlier in South Kordofan, becoming the commander of the SPLM-North forces in both states.KeywordsIndigenous GroupState GovernorFunj RegionIslamic MovementEthnic ViolenceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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