Darfur Rebels Say Power Deal First, Disarming Later
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 06:14PM
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region Thursday rejected calls
to disarm or confine their fighters to their bases before a
political solution to the conflict there has been decided and
implemented. At African Union-mediated peace talks in the
Nigerian capital Abuja to end 18 months of revolt in remote
Darfur, Sudan's government agreed to enlarge an AU force in the
area to help confine rebels to their bases while Sudanese forces
disarm Arab militias known as Janjaweed. Sudan has already agreed
to about 300 AU forces in Darfur to protect more than 100
observers of a shaky April cease-fire. But rebels said they would not
disarm until after a political solution, including devolution of
power and wealth-sharing, is agreed and implemented in Sudan's
arid west. [more 
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