Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) risks failure unless all parties urgently push to overcome the ruling National Congress party's lack of political will. The Khartoum-SPLM Agreement: Sudan's Uncertain Peace,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the CPA, which formally ended war between the Khartoum government and the insurgent Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), Africa's longest civil conflict. Even though SPLM/A Chairman John Garang was sworn in as First Vice-President on 9 July 2005, implementation of the CPA lags dangerously.