Two Sudan’s to hold summit ahead of oil closure deadline
2 min readGoing to Khartoum for South Sudanese leaders has become a ritual, a hajj to Mecca, only that it is, unlike the hajj pilgrims, a Sisyphean endeavor, a desultory iteration to be undertaken in the hopeless hope that, somehow, sometime, Beshir would grant them a respite from their self-inflicted foresight.
‘Aye koc ng’at akoon‘ because a mercy from the enemy is earned at the cost of surrendering that which one had hitherto hold dear to or, as in Mecca, a humble prostration.
The question, therefore, is not whether or not Salva Kiir would succeed to ‘persuade’ Khartoum to heed his supplication; rather, it is what President Salva Kiir is prepared to ‘trade off’ to have his prayers answered positively, and whether South Sudan would morally, economically and politically afford to submit to the ‘decree’.
At what cost should we be prepared to deal with Khartoum without necessarily impinging on our hard-won freedom and independence?
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