The Sudanese people have voted to split the huge African nation into two separate states, and end years of bloody civil war and ethnic strife. Yet with the oil reserves primarily located in the largely Christian south, and the transportation and export infrastructure located in the largely Arab north, Mwangi S. Kimenyi says many questions about how to keep the peace, protect the economy and share the wealth have yet to be resolved.
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Podcast@ Brookings Podcast: The Sudan Referendum–Path to Peace?
February 25, 2011