Commemoration of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Celebrates the signing of the peace agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War
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Peace Agreement Day
Commemoration of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
On this day in African history
- 1960 Construction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt.
- 1964 The University of Abidjan, later renamed Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, after Côte d’Ivoire's first president, is founded. · Côte d'Ivoire
- 2005 The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War in Naiv...
- 2005 Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army execute the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Nairobi to stop the civil war. · Kenya
- 2011 South Sudanese voters cast ballots in a self-determination referendum, with over ninety-eight percent choosing secession from Sudan. · Sudan