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Accepted Paper:
Unmanaged border: the unfinished agreement and demarcation of the line between Sudan and South Sudan, more than ten years after it became an international border.
Irene Panozzo
(Independent Consultant)
Paper short abstract:
Ever since Juba's independence in 2011, the new international border between the two Sudans has been a matter of disagreements, repeated official statements and formal closure. A formality that clashes with the reality on the ground, along a border that the two governments don't completely control.
Paper long abstract:
Since South Sudan's secession from Sudan in July 2011, the new international border has remained a bone of more or less acute contention. The agreement reached in September 2012 has been implemented only partially and during the last decade the two governments have continued to meet regularly and to regularly issue statements making public their commitments to work towards the opening of a few official border corridors and check points. However, facts on the ground speak of a different reality: an almost non-existent border, which is hardly demarcated, not always controlled by either government and where exchanges and movements of goods and people have never really stopped, often being exploited by local powers, including armed groups opposed to either government during and after the two countries' respective civil wars.