One of the preambles of the JPA lays out the ‘underlying root causes, including in particular the issues of citizenship without discrimination, land ownership and use, economic and political divisions between the center and periphery of Sudan, and systematic social, economic, political, and cultural marginalization of certain groups and areas of Sudan’. [...] The country’s system of wealth production and distribution pits the interests of poor farmers and herders from the country’s peripheries against those of the commercial-military leaderships which control the state and the market. [...] This chess game began in October 2019, prior to the JPA negotiations, prompted by differences between the civilians of the FFC and the militia leaders of the SRF over inclusion of the respective coalitions’ agreed priorities in the Constitutional Declaration. [...] The Arman-Agar split was amicable, and it reflects the fact that the movement can no longer end marginalization by unifying the interests of the peoples of the centre and the periphery. [...] The first of these was to increase transfers from the federal budget to the budgets of northern states, while the second was to transfer 50 per cent of revenues gained from oil extracted from Southern Sudan to the Government of Southern Sudan in Juba, and a 2 per cent share of revenues from oil extracted from South Kordofan and Abyei to the sub-national administrations in those areas.
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