ABSTRACT
Relations between the Movement for Colonial Freedom and Mading de Garang deteriorated, communications between the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) and the Sudan government came to a stand until the task of "middle man" was assumed by the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC). This chapter describes the activities of these two organizations, and the evolution of the peace process under their auspices. The WCC had acted as an aid-giver in the Sudan conflict for several years, along with other organizations which were working to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the civil war. As planned in the Nairobi meeting in April, the WCC/AACC delegation and the Sudanese government met in Khartoum on May 15, 1971. The delegations from the Sudanese government and the SSLM, as well as the representatives of the WCC and the AACC arrived in Addis Ababa to begin the formal negotiations.
