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June 24, 2023

Associated Press: US Envoy Says World Must Push For Peace in Sudan. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan said Tuesday that the world must make urgent efforts to help the African country fully apply the terms of a 2005 peace accord that ended a 22-year civil war between the northern and southern parts of the country. Scott Gration met with officials from the south's Sudan People's Liberation Movement and from the north's ruling National Congress Party at a conference in Washington that also drew representatives from more than 32 countries and organizations. The Obama administration hopes Tuesday's conference will rekindle international support for implementing the peace deal. The United States wants the parties to settle spats over elections, a census, passage of security laws, wealth-sharing, disagreement over the future of Abyei, an oil-rich area at the disputed border, and preparations for after the referendum.

The Washington Post: White House Boosts Effort to Salvage North-South Peace in Sudan. The Obama administration stepped up its efforts yesterday to salvage a four-year-old peace accord for Sudan, convening officials from 32 countries and international organizations amid fears that Africa's longest-running civil war could resume. The conference came after years in which the world's attention was focused on a separate Sudanese conflict, in the western region of Darfur. In the meantime, implementation of the agreement ending the country's north-south fight has lagged. "Time is urgent. It's time to move forward," retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, urged officials who packed a conference room at Washington's Park Hyatt hotel. Luka Biong Deng, a member of the southern Sudan delegation, said yesterday's conference was "a major achievement by the special envoy." However, he indicated that deep distrust remains toward the government led by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

BBC: Arbitration Deal on Sudan's Oil. Agreement was reached in Washington at talks mediated by US President Barack Obama's envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration. Both sides said they would accept a ruling due next month from the Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The dispute, over the region of Abyei, threatens a peace deal signed four years ago to end a 22-year civil war. At stake is control of a large part of the country's oil wealth.

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Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)