{"id":191027,"date":"2025-02-10T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-peace-in-sudan-what-its-going-to-take\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:00:45","slug":"sudan-peace-in-sudan-what-its-going-to-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-peace-in-sudan-what-its-going-to-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Peace in Sudan &#8211; What It&#8217;s Going to Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/article\/war-sudan-again-civilian-transition-caught-between-armed-rivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has never known<\/a> peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country&#8217;s instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sudans-civil-war-is-rooted-in-its-historical-favouritism-of-arab-and-islamic-identity-228533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failure to manage its diversity<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/sudans-history-coups-wars-instability-2023-05-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">military coups<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/explainers\/from-1955-to-2023-the-many-wars-and-conflicts-fought-in-sudan-12512802.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil wars<\/a>; and its fragmented and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sudan-armed-forces-are-on-a-path-to-self-destruction-risking-state-collapse-223487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bloated security sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Numerous political processes to mediate the peaceful resolution of conflicts started in the first decade of independence and continue today. None of these have delivered anything. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/asset\/145661\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earliest<\/a> peace efforts &#8211; in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502070003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country&#8217;s instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; failure to manage its diversity; military coups; civil wars; and its fragmented and bloated security sector. Numerous political processes to mediate the peaceful resolution of conflicts started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":191028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,257,6157,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-191027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}