Will Sudan’s Nuba Mountains be left high and dry?
…no set steps for either autonomy or to join the south – something many ordinary people assume will take place…
“We worry about the future, because we feel we could stand alone,” said former rebel soldier Abdulaziz Kuwa…I support the SPLM, but I fear the north will not let our farmland go without a fight.”
Few believe the government in Khartoum would easily surrender such wealth to their former civil war enemies in the south…The future of the region may not be clear but one thing seems certain – for the Nuba Mountains, there are tough times ahead.
Major donor Britain is pressing Sudan’s former north-south foes urgently to resolve differences over borders and sharing oil revenues, with a southern referendum on independence less than a year away…But issues of sharing oil and the river Nile waters, citizenship and demarcating a north-south border have not been discussed by north and south Sudanese officials, which one presidential adviser has called a “recipe for war”.
