Sudan People's Liberation Movement
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Oct 1, 2026
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As a concerned citizen, I feel we still need to have more time so that we can put everything in place and, uh, ensure that we move the right path.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Currently, there's only one political party, that is SPLM, so how shall the electoral process go on? Will it really be free and fair?
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm worried as a citizen.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
With all these disagreements that we have in the country, the electoral process might not be smooth.
Roland MarchalGUEST
And so that's basically the reasons why Khartoum is involved.
Roland MarchalGUEST
Now, Khartoum and Ethiopia, if you look history over the last 40 years, they had, okay, SPLM has a Garang movement, had sanctuaries in Ethiopia.
Roland MarchalGUEST
So there was a kind of cold or less cold relations between the two countries.
Roland MarchalGUEST
But they don't want to be at war with Ethiopia.
Clionadh RaleighHOST
His opposition is somebody that he has intermittently kind of fought with and then been in government with, which is Reik Machar.
Clionadh RaleighHOST
Salva Kiir's party is called the SPLM or the SPLA, depending if you're talking about the movement or the army.
Clionadh RaleighHOST
The opposition by Reik Machar is called the SPLM-IO in opposition.
Clionadh RaleighHOST
Creative.
Clionadh RaleighHOST
Yeah.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 seemed to vindicate a model for how wars might end in the Horn of Africa.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Under the auspices of the African Union, led by hegemonic Ethiopia and backed by the United States, it only took five lines for the United States to be involved, of course, it wrangled the government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement to the table with the promise of redistributing oil rents and set the pathway for southern Sudan's eventual secession in 2011.
Charlie TaylorHOST
It had many faults, not least the failure to incorporate Darfurian groups and others, but it nevertheless helped.
Charlie TaylorHOST
It depended, however, on a coherent external coalition of powers with sufficient leverage, combined with domestic elites willing to negotiate enough cash to secure a coherent deal.