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Government to attend peace talks

    NAIROBI

    The government of Sudan said on Monday it would attend scheduled peace talks on 21 September in Nairobi, Kenya with the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), state news media reported. Ahmad Ibrahim al-Tahir, presidential adviser on peace issues, told Omdurman radio that talks would go ahead as planned.

    The talks are to be held under the auspices of the regional
    Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Since the last meeting in April, the two sides in Sudan’s 17-year civil war have accused each other of repeated ceasefire violations. An SPLM spokesman in Nairobi, who blamed the government for stalling the talks, told IRIN the Sudanese government had changed the timetable for peace talks three times.

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