Unity for success of negotiations in Sudan

The African peace negotiator Salem Ahmad Salem called on the two rebel movements in Darfur to unify their ranks to ensure the success of Abuja negotiations which will be resumed in two weeks.

The spokesman for Ahmad Salem, Nour eddine Mazni, said following talks he had made with the African mediator in Darfur with the two rebels movement in Darfur, The Sudan Liberation Movement and al-Adel Wal-Musawat, that internal division makes reaching peace a very difficult matter.

The second deputy for the Sudanese president Ali Othman Muhammad Taha said by the end of July that the government delegation in Abuja talks is authorized to reach a peace agreement with the rebels.

The UN says that some 180,000 persons died in Darfur and other 2 million displaced because of the fighting between the government forces and what it said militias that stand in support to it and the two main rebel movements.