Sudan peace talks at stalemate
Darfur peace talks made little headway today as Sudanese insurgents insisted they would not lay down their weapons until pro-government Arab militiamen stop targeting largely black African civilians in their country’s troubled western region.
The rebel’s refusal to disarm came after a senior Sudanese official rejected the idea of an African peacekeeping mission to Darfur, where more than 30,000 people have been killed in an 18-month conflict and an estimated 1.2 million pushed from their homes.
