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    "content": "Museveni; and, the President of Ethiopia in order to solve the issues affecting Southern Sudan. Kenya has also played host to the Somalia peace negotiations. All these efforts bore fruit particularly in Southern Sudan where the parties to the conflict signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January, 2005. In that agreement, they agreed on an interim period in which the Southern Sudan would be autonomous while still a unitary State. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same protocols made arrangements that there will be a referendum. We want to draw from our own history. We suffered a lot as a result of post-election violence in 2007 and 2008. There has been a conflict in Sudan from the time it got her Independence in 1956. They have never had peace except during the time of the CPA. There is real danger that if the process of the referendum is not managed properly, particularly by the parties to the CPA, then the spectre of violence and conflict will be seen again. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I speak as a Kenyan neighbour who has hosted refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp. As a result of the 21-year civil war in Sudan, over two million people have lost their lives, about 20 million have been uprooted from their land, and about 650,000 other people have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, particularly in Kenya and Uganda. I think it is only responsible for us as a good neighbour to ensure that the people of the Sudan---"
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