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| Sudan to start peace talks with border-state rebels |
| 2013-04-22 |
| [Al Ahram] Sudan will start peace talks on Tuesday with hard boyz fighting government troops in two states bordering South Sudan in a conflict which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, according to state media on Sunday. The talks with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) will commence under the auspices of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... in Æthiopia on Tuesday, said Ibrahim Ghandour, head of Sudan's delegation, state news agency SUNA reported. Sudan previously refused to meet the SPLM-North and accused South Sudan of backing the rebels, charges denied by Juba. Khartoum changed its stance after signing a deal with South Sudan last month to defuse tensions between the neighbours and resume cross-border oil flows. The countries came close to war a year ago in a conflict over oil fees and disputed territory. The SPLM-North has already said it was ready to talk to Sudan. Its fighters in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states sided with South Sudan during decades of civil war with Khartoum, which ended with a peace agreement in 2005. |
| Posted by:Fred |