The CPA offers a new deal for the whole of Sudan, including national elections to be held next year and the possibility of secession for the south following a referendum promised for 2011.
But with peace talks to reunite Sudan at an advanced stage, the south's proposed new Sudan pound is stirring trouble.
The new state of South Sudan was born last year with 80 percent of its adults lacking basic skills.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Sudan's ambassador to the U.N.
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Countries covered by the new rules in addition to the DRC include South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.
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It has renewed the Non-Proliferation Treaty and ratified a new strategic arms treaty with Russia, strengthened the US posture across Asia while managing the complex relationship with China, and ushered a new country, South Sudan, onto the world stage.
At the same time, a variety of other mediators, including the Qataris and a new American special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, have been encouraging the disparate rebel groups to resolve their differences and form a more coherent negotiating body.
Today, rather than acknowledge his failure, Olmert is using the disclosure of IAF attacks in Sudan as yet a new way to obfuscate the fact that for three years and two months he has failed to adequately protect the state.
If predictions are accurate, the report argues, Sudan could become a "new medium-scale oil exporter" during the Bush administration.
In just one year, the West Wing Week videos have taken viewers from Boston to Brazil, from tech conferences in San Francisco to the birth of a new democracy in South Sudan.
Last week, I wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the post-referendum investment environment in Sudan, and promised to update the blog with any new information.
The secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, is in the process of negotiating with the government of Sudan and asked the U.S. to hold off on imposing new sanctions on the government so as to not complicate his negotiations.
According to new images released by the Satellite Sentinel project, a campaign group set up by Hollywood star George Clooney, the army in Sudan is preparing for a new assault in one of these regions, South Kordofan.
After northern Sudan had reported no new cases in 2003, southern Sudan began its own program under the direction of Makoy Samuel Yibi Logora in 2005.
These codes will help sort the new state's international post, mark out its citizens in immigration databases and allow the South Sudan pound to feature on international exchanges when it launches in July.
Before South Sudan's new diplomats relax on the cocktail circuit, they will also need to establish ties with a long list of other outfits.
Since South Sudan's independence, tension between the new neighbours has been strained, with rebellions breaking out on either side of the border and a dispute over oil which escalated to the brink of war last April.
Scott Gration, Barack Obama's energetic new special envoy to Sudan, believes that the best chance of peace for this divided country remains the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the Islamist government in Khartoum, in the north of the country, and the former rebels of south Sudan, who are quite separate from the Darfuris, and had been fighting their northern masters for most of the past half-century.
The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which controls most of southern Sudan, has already printed 60 tonnes of the new notes, and last week rumour had it they were about to issue them.
Yet new missions are on the horizon: if not Lebanon, perhaps Sudan.
However, as South Sudan enters a new phase in its history, the government has no alternative other than to develop strong economic institutions to guide them.
There are metaphors in this episode for Sudan's struggle to find its new identity, the tug between the old ways and the new.
Much has been made of the new oil exports, but they are unlikely to bring much relief since Sudan's creditors will simply ask it to pay a bit more than the 5% interest that it has to provide at present.
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Security Council, members traveled from New York to Nairobi, Kenya, for a special session on the Sudan crisis.
Independent gold mining has seen a boom in Sudan in the past few years, as the country looks for new sources to boost its economy.
While recognizing the daunting scale of the challenge, the UNESCO report describes independence as unique opportunity to set South Sudan on a new trajectory towards more dynamic growth, shared prosperity and common security.
Ugandan troops will head a new regional force, made up of troops from South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, to hunt the rebel fighters, who are holed up in the jungles of the Central African Republic, said Col.
Lifting the sanctions right now would be great for South Sudan, as it would enable it to acquire new investors, improve its negotiating position with old investors and plan new transport routes that might further its independence.
In a U.S. House of Representatives Africa subcommittee hearing on Sudan last month, Congressman Donald Payne, a Democrat from New Jersey, announced that he would introduce a resolution calling for the exclusion of foreign companies developing Sudan's oil sector from U.S. capital markets.
Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, for instance, is so proud of the new Merowe dam in the north of his country that he made it a selling-point in his recent election campaign.
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