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Article: West struggles with accord: international efforts to resolve the conflict in Darfur have suffered another setback after rebel groups boycotted the latest round of peace talks.(BRIEFING: SUDAN)(Justice and Equality Movement )(Sudan Liberation Army )
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
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- November 9, 2007
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The failure of key rebel groups to attend UN and African Union (AU) sponsored talks on peace in Darfur has left the international community scrambling to make the best of an increasingly difficult situation.
After the first two days of talks, held in Sirte, Libya, a UN-AU mediation team abandoned scheduled public meetings in favour of shuttle diplomacy Rather than continue the talks without the Justice & Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), the team is sending envoys to their respective leaders, Khalil Ibrahim in Juba and Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur in Paris.
"It is disappointing that the two leaders did not attend," says a Western ...