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Relief Services   Sudan Suffering: 'Not the Will of God'
Catholic Relief Services encourages people to pay attention to
the situation in Sudan, where CRS is working to build peace in
an often volatile nation. Sudan, the largest country in Africa,
is at a crossroads. It could follow a path that leads to the
first prolonged period of peace and prosperity in its half-
century of independence, or a path back to violence: the kind
that killed and displaced millions of people in southern Sudan
before. That fighting ended with the signing of the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement between representatives of the
government in Khartoum and southern Sudanese rebel groups. The
keystone of the agreement is a referendum, scheduled for January
2011, in which southern Sudanese will vote on whether to remain
part of Sudan or to become an independent nation.  A child peers
through a gate in the village