Rebel leader signs peace deal

Sudan’s vice president and the country’s main rebel leader signed a comprehensive peace agreement to end Africa’s longest-running conflict today, concluding an eight-year process to stop a civil war that has cost more than two million lives since 1983.

In a lavish ceremony in neighbouring Kenya – where the talks were based - Sudanese President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha and John Garang, chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, signed the peace agreement.