Mabeiki in Darfur for a new round of negotiations

Two days after signing the special peace agreement on southern Sudan, President of South Africa Thambu Mabeiki arrived in Darfur in order to hold further talks in preparations for a new round of negotiations with the Sudanese government.

Thousands of the people of Darfur welcomed Mabeiki who arrived in the district coming from Nivasha, Kenya where Southern Sudan peace agreement was signed.

President of South Africa on Saturday vowed to shoulder responsibility for rebuilding Sudan via the African Union following the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement in the country.

He simultaneously stressed the need that the Sudanese government to establish a multi racial and ethnic society in order to maintain unity through diversity as a strong base for a new united Sudan.

Thambu Mabeiki announced that the war ended in Sudan and urged his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir to collaborate with the African Union in Darfur in order to achieve stability in the district.

For his part, Bashir stressed Khartoum's readiness for the next round Darfur's negotiations. He said he is ready to discuss the issue of sharing wealth and the authority in order to establish peace, noting that south agreement is a momentum to this end.

Meantime, Sudan's vive President Othman Taha called on the southern rebels to prepare themselves and prepare for a new round of talks in order to establish peace in all areas.

Taha announced that the peace process has been completed by signing the agreement between the government and the southern rebels to end the longest conflict the African continent had witnessed resulted in killing two million people, most of them because of hunger and illnesses.

Taha described before a group of people in the headquarters of the ruling National Congress Party the agreement which he had described through negotiations with the rebels leader John Garang as an open and clear book and all Sudanese can read and discuss it.

Worthy mentioning that the war in southern Sudan erupted in 1983 when the people of the south rebelled against the government of Khartoum in order to end what they considered the hegemony of Arabs and Muslims and a margining for the blacks and the Christians in the south. The war and its reflections resulted in killing 2 millions and displaced other 4 million.