Sudan and South Sudan Move to Ease Tensions With Border Accord
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Sudan and its newly independent neighbor, South Sudan, took a step toward easing tensions along their common border by signing a security accord that will create a demilitarized zone.
“The signing of this agreement over the hot-spot border area means the two states are willing to negotiate and are recognizing the need to cooperate,” Fouad Hikmat, the Sudan special adviser at the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said today by phone from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.