CRCA Knowledge Hub
Pilot Edition 2026
CRCA African Peace Agreements Database
A structured archive of the continent’s peace agreements, ceasefires, political settlements and mediation outcomes — designed to be citable, comparable and permanent within the CRCA Knowledge Hub.
This pilot edition currently features 35 records. The full inaugural edition will comprise 75 agreements curated to CRCA standards.
Some records are still under editorial and expert review before publication. Entries carrying an “In review” badge remain provisional pending final CRCA validation.
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Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS)
🌍 South Sudan📅 12 September 2018📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 IGADA revitalized political settlement intended to end the South Sudan civil war through transitional governance arrangements, security sector reforms, constitutional processes, and…
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Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS)
🌍 South Sudan📅 17 August 2015📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 IGAD-PLUSThe first comprehensive settlement of the South Sudanese civil war, establishing a Transitional Government of National Unity; it collapsed in July 2016 and was later revitalized…
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Comprehensive Peace Agreement (Naivasha Agreement)
🌍 Sudan📅 9 January 2005📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 IGAD (Kenya — Gen. Lazaro Sumbeiywo)Ended Africa's longest-running civil war through wealth- and power-sharing, interim autonomy for Southern Sudan, and a self-determination referendum that produced South Sudan's…
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Addis Ababa Agreement on the Problem of South Sudan
🌍 Sudan📅 27 February 1972📜 Political Agreement🤝 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)Ended the first Sudanese civil war by granting the South regional autonomy within a united Sudan; its unilateral abrogation in 1983 reignited war and stands as the classic…
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Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD)
🌍 Sudan📅 14 July 2011📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 State of QatarA framework settlement for Darfur covering power sharing, compensation, justice and a Darfur Regional Authority; weakened from the outset by the non-signature of the major rebel…
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Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan (Juba Peace Agreement)
🌍 Sudan📅 3 October 2020📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Government of South SudanA multi-track settlement between Sudan's post-revolution transitional government and armed movements from Darfur, the Two Areas and the East, integrating them into transitional…
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Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan
🌍 Sudan📅 11 May 2023📜 Humanitarian Agreement🤝 Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaA humanitarian commitment signed weeks into the Sudan war, obliging both belligerents to protect civilians and enable relief passage; systematically violated and never converted…
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Agreement for Lasting Peace through a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities (Pretoria Agreement)
🌍 Ethiopia📅 2 November 2022📜 Security Arrangement🤝 African Union High-Level Panel (Olusegun Obasanjo, Uhuru Kenyatta, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka)The permanent cessation-of-hostilities agreement that ended active combat in the Tigray war, providing for disarmament, restoration of federal authority and services,…
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Agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea (Algiers Agreement)
🌍 Ethiopia📅 12 December 2000📜 Political Agreement🤝 Algeria (OAU)Ended the Ethiopia–Eritrea border war, creating a neutral Boundary Commission and Claims Commission; the boundary ruling went unimplemented on the ground for sixteen years until…
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Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Mali (Algiers Accord)
🌍 Mali📅 20 June 2015📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Algeria (lead)A decentralisation-and-integration settlement for northern Mali between the state, the CMA separatist coalition and pro-government Platform militias; implementation stagnated for…
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Ouagadougou Political Agreement
🌍 Côte d'Ivoire📅 4 March 2007📜 Political Agreement🤝 Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso / ECOWAS facilitator)A directly negotiated settlement between the Ivorian presidency and the Forces Nouvelles rebellion, establishing a joint government, identification and voter registration, and…
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Arusha Accords (Rwanda)
🌍 Rwanda📅 4 August 1993📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Tanzania (facilitator)A comprehensive power-sharing settlement of the Rwandan civil war whose implementation was destroyed by extremist spoilers, culminating in the 1994 genocide — the paradigmatic…
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Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi
🌍 Burundi📅 28 August 2000📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Julius Nyerere (until 1999)A consociational settlement of the Burundian civil war establishing ethnic quotas across state institutions and the army; completed by later ceasefires with the CNDD-FDD and FNL,…
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Lomé Peace Agreement
🌍 Sierra Leone📅 7 July 1999📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Togo (ECOWAS chair)A power-sharing and amnesty settlement with the RUF that collapsed into renewed hostage-taking and fighting in 2000, before British intervention, UNAMSIL reinforcement and the…
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Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement
🌍 Liberia📅 18 August 2003📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 ECOWAS (Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar)Ended Liberia's second civil war after Charles Taylor's departure into exile, establishing a two-year transitional government excluding the principal warlords from the top…
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General Peace Agreement for Mozambique (Rome Agreement)
🌍 Mozambique📅 4 October 1992📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 Community of Sant'EgidioEnded fifteen years of civil war through RENAMO's conversion into a political party, UN-supervised demobilisation, and multiparty elections — the emblematic success of…
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Maputo Accord for Peace and National Reconciliation
🌍 Mozambique📅 6 August 2019📜 Political Agreement🤝 Mirko Manzoni (Swiss Ambassador, later UN Personal Envoy)Closed the armed chapter reopened by RENAMO's 2013–2016 relapse through decentralisation reforms and the definitive DDR of RENAMO's residual forces, completed with the closure of…
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Lusaka Protocol
🌍 Angola📅 20 November 1994📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 United Nations (Alioune Blondin Beye)Attempted to restore the collapsed Bicesse framework through power sharing and renewed demobilisation after the post-election war of 1992–94; UNITA's non-compliance and…
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Luena Memorandum of Understanding
🌍 Angola📅 4 April 2002📜 Ceasefire🤝 Military-to-military negotiation (no external mediator)The soldier-negotiated ceasefire that ended Angola's 27-year civil war six weeks after Jonas Savimbi's death, implementing the Lusaka Protocol's military annexes: quartering,…
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Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement
🌍 Democratic Republic of the Congo📅 10 July 1999📜 Ceasefire🤝 Zambia (President Chiluba)The multi-state ceasefire of 'Africa's world war', committing six national armies and the principal rebel movements to disengagement, a Joint Military Commission, an…
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Global and All-Inclusive Agreement on the Transition in the DRC (Sun City / Pretoria Agreement)
🌍 Democratic Republic of the Congo📅 17 December 2002📜 Power Sharing🤝 South Africa (President Mbeki)The power-sharing settlement of the Second Congo War, creating the '1+4' transitional presidency, integrating belligerent forces, and steering the DRC to its 2006 elections —…
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Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region (Addis Ababa Framework)
🌍 Democratic Republic of the Congo📅 24 February 2013📜 Security Arrangement🤝 United Nations (Ban Ki-moon; Special Envoy Mary Robinson)A regional framework of reciprocal commitments — DRC reforms in exchange for neighbours' non-interference — agreed after the first M23 rebellion, and paired with the Force…
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Washington Peace Agreement (DRC–Rwanda)
🌍 Democratic Republic of the Congo📅 27 June 2025📜 Political Agreement🤝 United StatesA US-brokered interstate agreement between the DRC and Rwanda providing for respect of territorial integrity, cessation of hostilities, neutralisation of the FDLR, disengagement…
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Libreville Agreements
🌍 Central African Republic📅 11 January 2013📜 Ceasefire🤝 ECCAS (Chad, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville)A ceasefire and power-sharing arrangement between the Bozizé government and the advancing Séléka coalition; it collapsed within weeks when Séléka took Bangui, opening the CAR's…
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Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic (APPR-RCA / Khartoum Accord)
🌍 Central African Republic📅 6 February 2019📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 African Union (lead)The eighth and most comprehensive CAR settlement, signed between the government and fourteen armed groups: inclusive government, mixed security units, DDR and transitional…
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Libyan Political Agreement (Skhirat Agreement)
🌍 Libya📅 17 December 2015📜 Political Agreement🤝 UNSMIL (Bernardino León, Martin Kobler)Created the Government of National Accord and Presidency Council to reunify Libya's rival authorities; never ratified by the eastern parliament, it presided over continued…
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Agreement for a Complete and Permanent Ceasefire in Libya (5+5 Joint Military Commission)
🌍 Libya📅 23 October 2020📜 Ceasefire🤝 UNSMIL (Acting SRSG Stephanie Williams)The nationwide ceasefire ending the Tripoli war, agreed by the 5+5 Joint Military Commission: frontline freeze, reopening of coastal routes, and commitments on withdrawing…
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Djibouti Agreement
🌍 Somalia📅 18 August 2008📜 Political Agreement🤝 United Nations (SRSG Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah)Brought the moderate wing of the Islamic Courts opposition into Somalia's transitional institutions, doubling parliament and producing Sheikh Sharif's 2009 election — a…
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National Peace Accord (South Africa)
🌍 South Africa📅 14 September 1991📜 Political Agreement🤝 Church and business facilitation (Consultative Business Movement, SACC)A domestically brokered accord binding the state, liberation movements and parties to codes of conduct amid escalating transition violence, creating national, regional and local…
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Lancaster House Agreement
🌍 Zimbabwe📅 21 December 1979📜 Comprehensive Peace Agreement🤝 United Kingdom (Lord Carrington)Ended the Rhodesian war through a decolonisation constitution, ceasefire and British-supervised elections that brought Zimbabwe to independence in 1980; its ten-year property…
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Global Political Agreement (Zimbabwe)
🌍 Zimbabwe📅 15 September 2008📜 Power Sharing🤝 SADC (President Thabo Mbeki)The SADC-brokered power-sharing settlement of Zimbabwe's violent 2008 electoral crisis, creating an inclusive government with Tsvangirai as Prime Minister; it stabilised the…
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Greentree Agreement (Bakassi Peninsula)
🌍 Cameroon📅 12 June 2006📜 Political Agreement🤝 United Nations (Secretary-General Kofi Annan)Implemented the ICJ's 2002 Bakassi ruling through a negotiated, phased Nigerian withdrawal and transfer of the peninsula to Cameroon with guarantees for resident populations —…
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Wunlit Dinka–Nuer Peace and Reconciliation Conference Covenant
🌍 South Sudan📅 8 March 1999📜 Local Peace Agreement🤝 New Sudan Council of Churches (people-to-people process)The landmark people-to-people covenant reconciling west-bank Dinka and Nuer communities after the devastating post-1991 intercommunal wars — sealed through customary ritual and…
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Doha Peace Agreement (Chad)
🌍 Chad📅 8 August 2022📜 Political Agreement🤝 State of QatarA pre-dialogue accord between Chad's transitional military authorities and some forty armed opposition movements, providing ceasefire, amnesty and participation in the national…
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General Peace Agreement between the Government of Senegal and the MFDC
🌍 Senegal📅 30 December 2004📜 Local Peace Agreement🤝 Internal facilitation; community and church channelsA ceasefire and reintegration accord between Dakar and the MFDC's political leadership under Abbé Diamacoune, which reduced but did not end West Africa's longest-running…
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