Biggest Darfur rebel faction to sign peace deal: AU
Posted on: Friday, 5 May 2006, 04:16 CDT
ABUJA (Reuters) - The leader of the largest faction of Darfur rebels agreed on Friday to sign a peace deal with the government despite reservations, African Union mediators said.
"It's done. Minni is going to sign. He has accepted with some reservations ... but he is going to sign," said Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the AU of Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) leader Minni Arcua Minnawi.
In a transcript of Friday morning's talks provided to Reuters by the AU, Minnawi is quoted as saying: "I accept the document with some reservations concerning the power sharing."
Three Darfur rebel factions have been meeting in the Nigerian capital Abuja with AU and international mediators to try to reach a peace agreement after two years of stop-start negotiations to end three years of bitter conflict.
The main rebel group, the SLA, is split into two factions but observers say Minnawi has more support among SLA fighters than his counterpart Abdel Wahed Mohammed al-Nur.
Nur's SLA faction and the third rebel faction, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), have rejected the peace settlement drafted by AU and Western diplomats.
Source: REUTERS
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