January 2009 marked the fourth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) and the southern rebel Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM). That agreement set out a six year interim period during which it was envisaged that comprehensive democratic reform would be undertaken. With two thirds of the interim period passed, it had been envisaged that the package of legal reforms would have been implemented and that the country would be moving towards free and fair elections no later than July 2009.
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