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Invitation to Kenyan president

    NAIROBI

    President Omar Bashir has written to President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya with regard to the ongoing peace initiative between the Sudanese government and southern rebels, Sudanese state media reported on Saturday. The letter was delivered by Social Planning Minister Dr Qutbi al-Mahdi Ahmad on Friday, who briefed Moi on the stalled peace talks, and complained that the rebel SPLA “continued to violate the humanitarian ceasefire” in Bahr el-Ghazal. The Sudanese government was “seriously prepared for the next round of peace talks and was fully committed to a ceasefire if the rebel movement also responded”, he was quoted as saying.

    Kenya is the sole base for external aid to southern Sudan, and allows the SPLA/M to have offices in the capital, Nairobi. Kenyan diplomats have taken a leading role in the peace initiative headed by the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which aims to bring rebel and government representatives together in Nairobi sometime this month.

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