Eritrea 2008: The Unfinished Business of Liberation

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Acknowledgments

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Notes

1. It is often overlooked that the international community does have a stake in upholding a precedent in international law, and not only as an abstract legal principle. The Peace Agreements in Sudan, for instance, in the specific provisions that were agreed for the oil‐rich Abyei area between North and South, as well as two other ‘Special Areas’, provided for an independent boundary commission to be set up to determine the borders of Abyei if the two main parties could not agree ‐ and that that commission's findings should be binding. But the Government of Sudan has likewise rejected the commission's decision ‐ creating what most observers see as the main stumbling block to the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which almost fell apart in late 2007.