Sudan’s first civil war for self-determination

Abstract

This chapter examines the developments that led to the outbreak of the first civil war in Sudan. It provides brief analyses of the civil war, the accord that brought its end, and the violation of the accord. Then explores that the violation of the Addis Ababa Accord that sparked the second civil war and the recurrent abrogation of subsequent promises and agreements by the Northern ruling elite spawned the final division of Sudan. Unfair distribution of resources, coupled with the denial to grant South Sudan federal status in the Juba Conference of 1947, sparked the first civil war. Sudan has been afflicted by a civil war mainly between the 'Arab North' and the 'African Animist Christian South'. The failure to find a political formula that accommodated multiculturalism necessitated the continuation of the civil war and brought about the second civil war, which ended with the implementation of self-determination in the South and culminated in the independence of the country.