The unceasing efforts to achieve and implement the The accession of South Sudan as the newest member four integration pillars have led to the formation of the of the EAC in 2016 exemplifies the organization’s ‘coalition of the willing’ that comprises of Kenya, Uganda commitment to widening relations. [...] The failure to gain the approval of Southern Sudan’s main Bashir regime created the Popular Defense Forces, a representatives and main armed groups, the failure to militia to support the army in its fight against Southern address the root causes of the problem, and the lack Sudanese (Salmon, 2007, p. [...] In 1994, the Inter- only served the interests of the Bashir regime and some Governmental Authority on Drought and Development splinter groups while ignoring the rights and aspirations (IGAD), the regional peace and security body in the Horn of most Southern Sudanese, let alone the people of Africa prepared a Declaration of Principles (DoPs) of Sudan. [...] Neither the transitional constitutional charter nor provides for amending the Constitution by a two-third majority, the CPA, which led to the drafting of the INC, granted the parties to the agreement collectively 80% This Constitution shall not be of the national assembly (50% to the NCP, and 28% to amended unless the amendments the SPLM/A) (The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, 2005). [...] To avoid any ambiguities or even a all the members of each Chamber possibility of amending the CPA or the INC, the parties added: “any amendment affecting the provisions of the of the National Legislature Comprehensive Peace Agreement shall be introduced sitting separately and only after only with the approval of both Parties signatory to the [the] introduction of the draft Comprehensive Peace Agr.
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