New peace effort for Darfur

The United Nations and African Union envoys for Sudan agreed to work “hand-in-hand” to try to bring all the warring parties to the peace table and convince them there is no military solution to the Darfur conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people.

A May peace agreement signed by Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir’s government and one of the major rebel groups was supposed to help end the fighting in the vast western region. Instead, it has sparked months of fighting between rival rebel factions that refused to sign and the result has been more deaths and 2.5 million people displaced from their homes.