Sudan, Southern Rebels Race to Meet Peace Deadline
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Sudan's government and southern rebel negotiators raced against the clock to agree on the final chapters of a peace deal on Friday and clear the way for a comprehensive pact to end Africa's longest-running civil war.
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The Sudanese government and southern rebel leaders pledged again Friday to end a 21-year civil war -- this time making the commitment before the UN Security Council holding a special meeting in Africa.
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The Sudanese government and southern rebel leaders pledged again yesterday to end a 21-year civil war - this time making the commitment before the UN Security Council holding a special meeting in Africa.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said his government is committed to signing a final peace deal with southern Sudanese rebels on time, an official newspaper reported.
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NAIROBI, Dec 30  -- Khartoum and the main southern rebel group agreed on the last issues in their lengthy peace talks in Kenya, paving the way to signing a comprehensive peace deal to end Africa&#39;s longest-running conflict.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels were yet to resolve key issues in talks to conclude a peace deal by a Friday deadline to end Africa's longest-running civil war, negotiators said on Thursday.
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THE NEW: The Sudanese government and southern rebel leaders promised to end a 21-year civil war. Sudan&#39;s vice president set a year-end target for a peace accord.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels resumed talks on a final peace deal on Thursday amid fears that tensions in the oil-producing south and the newer Darfur crisis could plunge Africa's biggest country into chaos. Underscoring the external pressures on Khartoum to end its 21-year-old southern civil war, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk, warned both sides not to re-open previous agreements signed in May.
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Sudan's government and Darfur rebels said  on Thursday they were waiting for African Union mediators to  decide if peace talks would continue despite a stalemate on  security in the western Sudanese region.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels  were yet to resolve key issues in talks to conclude a peace  deal by a Friday deadline to end Africa's longest-running civil  war, negotiators said on Thursday.
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Political and military leaders of Sudan's main rebel group met in southern Sudan to plan the post-conflict reconstruction and administration of their vast region, fractured by 21 years of civil war, officials said.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels  will agree a permanent cease-fire on Friday at talks aimed at  ending Africa's longest-running civil war, delegates said.
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Sudan's government and southern rebels agreed the final chapters of a peace deal on Friday, paving the way for a comprehensive accord ending Africa's longest-running civil war in January, witnesses said.
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The two rebel groups fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been accused by Chad of stalling the peace process. Disagreements within the two groups had made it very difficult for the government
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Sudan&#39;s government and Darfur rebels said on Thursday they were waiting for African Union mediators to decide if peace talks would continue despite a stalemate on security in the western Sudanese region.
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A deadline expires later for members of the Ugandan rebel LRA to arrive at assembly points in southern Sudan.