SUDANESE INSURGENTS TRAINED AS PRISON OFFICERS
November 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INVESTING in jails may not be an obvious strategy to help a war-wracked country emerge from armed conflict, but such an initiative is being backed in southern Sudan. The Canadian government and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have helped launch the Lologo Regional Training Centre, southern Sudan, and it is already re-orienting 550 former soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA), which has struck a shaky peace deal with the Sudan government. The Southern Sudan Prison Service is planning to employ up to 1,500 former SPLA soldiers by ...
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