Le Nord comme le Sud devront s’engager à résoudre plusieurs questions cruciales en suspens, comme la délimitation des frontières entre les deux États, le partage des revenus du pétrole, l’utilisation des pipelines, la citoyenneté et l’organisation de consultations populaires dans le Nil Bleu et le Sud Kordofan.
Both the north and the south will have to work to resolve several crucial questions which have been left in abeyance, such as the drawing of the boundaries between the two countries, the dividing up of oil revenues, the use of pipelines, the issue of citizenship and the organising of popular consultations in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan.