evidence: The creation of the semiautonomous region of southern Sudan was provided for by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the long-running civil war between the north and the south. The region was administered under the constitution for southern Sudan, promulgated in December 2005, as well as the country’s national interim constitution, promulgated in July 2005. The latter document provided for the handling of any conflicts that might occur between the two concurrent levels of government. Both documents were superseded by the transitional constitution prepared for governing South Sudan upon its 2011 secession from Sudan.