{"id":95737,"date":"2020-10-02T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95737"},"modified":"2020-10-02T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T21:09:47","slug":"al-jezeera-sudan-to-strike-peace-with-rebels-after-decades-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95737","title":{"rendered":"(Al Jezeera) Sudan to strike peace with rebels after decades of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan\u2019s government and rebels are set to sign a landmark peace deal in a bid to end decades of war in which hundreds of thousands have died \u2013 an historic achievement if it holds.<\/p>\n<p>Ending Sudan\u2019s internal conflicts has been a top priority of the transition government in power since last year\u2019s removal of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir amid a popular uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides are due to sign the deal in full on Saturday in Juba, the capital of neighbouring South Sudan, after putting their initials on the agreement at the end of last month.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the ceremony holds great significance \u2013 South Sudan\u2019s leaders themselves battled Khartoum as rebels for decades, before establishing the world\u2019s newest nation-state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/1\/sudan-to-strike-peace-with-rebels-after-decades-of-war\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another step in right direction for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sudan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sudan<\/a> as new gov&#39;t and armed opposition groups are set to sign peace deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRC_Norway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NRC_Norway<\/a> was thrown out of Sudan by previous gov\u2019t. We are now back, expanding relief and will work to consolidate peace and reconciliation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3meZWaLpy2\">https:\/\/t.co\/3meZWaLpy2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRC_Egeland\/status\/1311947985819963392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan\u2019s government and rebels are set to sign a landmark peace deal in a bid to end decades of war in which hundreds of thousands have died \u2013 an historic achievement if it holds. Ending Sudan\u2019s internal conflicts has been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95737\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,143,168,151,346,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95740,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95737\/revisions\/95740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}