Article: Africa Focus: Sudan, Chad sign new peace deal on sidelines of Islamic summit

Africa Focus: Sudan, Chad sign new peace deal on sidelines of Islamic summit

by Feng Xue, Jing Jing

DAKAR, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby, after long hours of closed-door meetings, signed late Thursday a new peace deal aimed at ending years of hostility between the two neighboring countries.

The deal, mediated by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and signed on the sidelines of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit, is the latest effort to achieve peace after Sudan and Chad have repeatedly breached a number of bilateral peace agreements and blamed each other for supporting the neighbor's ...

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