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Garang's Death Prompts Sudan Peace Questions

By Jason Beaubien

Published July 31, 2005 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Sudanese rebel leader turned vice president John Garang died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was a charismatic leader whose death strikes a blow to the January peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south.

Garang assumed the vice presidency just three weeks ago. Members of Garang's southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement and officials with the government in Khartoum have vowed to maintain the peace agreement.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.

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