Eight foreign ministers have led a UN Security Council meeting to demand that rebel groups in Darfur join a peace deal signed last week, and warned that the fate of the Sudanese region would be a test for the powerful UN body.

THE US walked out of a UN meeting yesterday in protest at its decision to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission, the world body’s human rights watchdog.

The US walked out of a UN meeting today in protest at its decision minutes later to give Sudan a third term on the Human Rights Commission, the world body’s human rights watchdog.