The move to shift the shuttle government every three months between Khartoum and Juba is part of an agreement to improve the relationship between the north and south parts of Sudan. The north is predominantly Muslim while the south is predominantly Christian and Animist.
Two months after pulling out, the ex-rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement is to rejoin Sudan’s central government. A key point would be the Abyei region which is rich in oil.
Pagan Amum, the secretary general for the SPLM said that he was hopeful that the agreement was back on track. He adds that the dispute between Abyei will be resolved soon afterwards.
According to BBC in Khartoum, many people were afraid that Sudan could slide back into the twenty-year brutal war that ended in 2005. The war cost the lives of over one-million people.
After the SPLM leader Salva Kiir had met with Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, the group has agreed to end its boycott.
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