South Africa: Sudan Needs a Hero - but Is Thabo Mbeki Really It?

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The ongoing civil war in Sudan proper has been largely ignored, with attention focused on the chaos in South Sudan instead. But as world media and the international community turn a blind eye, at least one person is paying attention: Thabo Mbeki. The former South African president is enthusiastically leading the mediation process between Khartoum and rebel groups, even though he's got some serious trust issues. By SIMON ALLISON.

When South Sudan became independent in 2011, everyone was too busy celebrating the birth of the world's newest country to remember that across that border, in what remained of Sudan, the civil war still raged, and people were still dying in Darfur, in Blue Nile, and in South Kordofan.

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