Sudan: Security 'Volcano' Ready to Blow in the East

Kassala — Five years after a peace deal was signed to end a rebellion in eastern Sudan, a perceived failure to address the marginalization that sparked the uprising could unleash a new wave of violence, according to several officials.

Although the region has been overshadowed by war in Darfur, the secession of the South and fighting between Sudanese forces and rebels on the border with South Sudan, the east is "a volcano waiting to erupt", an official working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kassala, who wished to remain anonymous, told IRIN.

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