PREAMBLE
We the people of the Sudan:
Grateful to Almighty God who has bestowed upon us the wisdom and will to reach a Comprehensive Peace Agreement that has definitively put an end to the longest running conflict in Africa

1) (1) a) The territory of Southern Sudan comprises all lands and areas that constituted
the former three Southern Provinces of Bahr el Ghazal, Equatoria and Upper Nile in
their boundaries as they stood on January 1, 1956....