Rebels Sign Pact With Sudan's Government to End 21-Year War

The Islamic government of Sudan and rebels in the Christian and animist south signed a pact on Wednesday pledging to end 21 years of war in which two million people have died.
The accord, signed after two years of peace talks in Naivasha, Kenya, provides for political power-sharing, a split in oil revenues, the maintenance of separate armies with integrated forces deployed in strategic areas and a future referendum allowing southerners to decide whether to remain part of Sudan or secede.
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But at the United Nations, the director for relief in Sudan said that a separate conflict in the country's western Darfur region was threatening to become "the biggest humanitarian drama of our time."
In Darfur, Arab militias with tacit government backing have been attacking black Africans. Hours before the Kenya signing, Jan Egeland, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council that the numbers of people needing "acute assistance" in Darfur had risen in recent weeks to 2 million from 1.2 million.
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Nairobi, Kenya

Khartoum is continuing a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in the western region of Darfur, despite having signed a peace accord with rebels to end 21 years of civil war in the south, an international rights group warned on Thursday.

"Ending the war in southern Sudan is a huge step forward, but in the western part of the country, the Sudan government is taking a terrible step backward," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement.

"The government's campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur raises real questions about whether Khartoum is really willing to comply with Wednesday's peace accord in the south," it added.

"As recently as Tuesday, Arab militias attacked five villages situated 15km south of Nyala in Darfur, killing 46 civilians and wounding at least nine others," the statement said, citing local sources.

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