The Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan project said tensions continue without agreement over 2,010-kilometres’ border that divides the two countries.
A statement CRN obtained said despite repeated commitment to the establishment of a Safe Demilitarized Border Zone, the border remains militarized and trade disrupted.
It added that northern pastoralists who seasonally migrate into South Sudan continue to be harassed on both sides of the border.
The Survey reveals that negotiations over the final location of the border stalled since early 2013 and are not likely to resume in the near future because South Sudan and Sudan have a vested interest in not agreeing on a final border.
The Assessment also unveiled that neither country is willing to withdraw troops from strategic crucial positions in the border zone due to the armed conflict in South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur of Sudan and Unity and Upper Nile States of South Sudan.
The Survey indicated that many border crossing points between the two countries remain closed, damaging the economies on both sides.