Comprehensive Peace Agreement

<p>The Comprehensive Peace Agreement , also known as the Naivasha Agreement, was an accord signed on 9 January 2005, by the <a href="/facts/Sudan_People%2527s_Liberation_Movement/nHARcLAt">Sudan People's Liberation Movement</a> (SPLM) and the <a href="/facts/Government_of_Sudan/1FIa0Bwt">Government of Sudan</a>. The CPA was meant to end the <a href="/facts/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War/Re986juN">Second Sudanese Civil War</a>, develop democratic governance countrywide, and share <a href="/facts/Petroleum_industry_in_Sudan/s6r5Dpvw">oil revenues</a>. It also set a timetable for a <a href="/facts/South_Sudan/DacJpKfT">Southern Sudanese</a> <a href="/facts/2011_South_Sudanese_independence_referendum/lnXcgcdx">independence referendum</a>.
</p><p>The peace process was encouraged by the <a href="/facts/Intergovernmental_Authority_on_Development/LoCJd9qt">Intergovernmental Authority on Development</a> (IGAD), in addition to a "troika" of donor countries comprising the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>, and <a href="/facts/Norway/wlDRKRTR">Norway</a>.
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Comprehensive Peace Agreement