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Article: SUDAN - Oct 11 - Ex-Rebels Quit Unity Government In Sudan.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- October 13, 2007
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South Sudan's former rebel movement, which signed a historic peace agreement two years ago with Sudan's governing party to end one of Africa's longest-running wars, abruptly pulls out of the national unity government in the gravest blow yet to the peace accord. The former rebels said the move was intended to press Sudan's governing party to live up to the multifaceted agreement, which has been hobbled by disputes over borders, troop movements and sharing Sudan's oil profits. While much of the recent international attention on Sudan has been focused on Darfur, in the west, tensions over the fragile peace deal in the south have been bubbling for months. American officials ...