| More than 200 members of a rebel group fighting Sudanese government forces in the war-torn Darfur region surrendered to the authorities, official media outlets reported on Saturday. According to the state-run Omdurman radio and several governmental newspapers, 10 field commanders and 200 men of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) announced in the border town of Tina they were defecting and joining government forces. Reports quoted the commanders as declaring at a ceremony held there for the occasion that their defection was prompted by the "unacceptable" treatment inflicted on them by rebel leaders. |