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IGAD peace talks resume in Kenya

    NAIROBI

    The Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) peace talks on Sudan resumed in Kenya on Tuesday, with the facilitation of Kenyan special envoy Daniel Mboya, and were expected to continue until Saturday. The talks were moved out of the Kenyan capital Nairobi to be held behind closed doors in the central town of Nanyuki, in order to avoid leaks and public statements which had not helped previous rounds of talks, political sources told IRIN on Thursday. The focus of the talks was the separation of state and religion, and the right to self-determination of southern Sudan, they added. Sudanese Vice-President Ali Osman Taha said the government was willing to discuss the issue of separating religion from the state, a matter which in his view would not jeopardise the country's
    unity, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.

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