Violence returns to Sudan as peace deal falters

SUDAN’S Darfur region is facing a new wave of killings and rapes, with fighting between rebel factions displacing thousands of villagers despite a recent peace agreement, the UN humanitarian chief has warned.

Humanitarian workers are being attacked every day, and “new front lines are opening all the time in new areas”, Jan Egeland said.

He accused the Sudan Liberation Army faction led by Minni Minnawi, the only rebel group to sign the May 5 peace agreement, of attacking villages held by SLA splinter groups.