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NAIROBI (AFP) - Sudan's government and the opposition trying to overthrow it have agreed to resume peace talks here on September 21st, Kenya's Foreign Minister Bonaya Godana said Friday. He said negotiations between the government and the opposition Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) had become bogged down over a dispute over the date of the meeting and that the disagreement had now been resolved. The SPLA in June ended a boycott of the peace talks that began the previous month after accusing the government of bombing civilian targets in southern Sudan. The opposition movement has been in fruitless negotiations with Khartoum since 1993 in talks sponsored by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a group of seven east African nations. Kenya chairs an IGAD committee trying to end the Sudanese conflict. The last round of the tortuous peace talks in Nairobi in April ended with no agreement on the two key issues discussed - the separation of state and religion and the administrative setup of the country. Sudan's civil war is set against a background of resistance by the mainly animist and Christian south to the Islamic regime in Khartoum. But since 1983, control over resources, including humanitarian aid, has taken an increasingly important role in the conflict. |
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