This was fed by the ecstatic welcome for the late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior in Khartoum in July 2005 and the fact that many Northerners embrace his vision of a ‘New Sudan’ politically secular and giving some of the Nile Valley elite’s power to the country’s marginalised peoples...
There is still though a group in the SPLM that believes in the New Sudan that lay at the core of the CPA for many of its foreign architects who counted on John Garang to carry this through...