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Dinka-Nuer peace agreement

    NAIROBI

    An immediate ceasefire was agreed last week by Dinka and Nuer community leaders at a reconciliation conference in Bahr al-Ghazal aimed at ending more than seven years of conflict. The 8 March accord, known as the Wunlit Dinka-Nuer Covenant, was settled after over a week of community-based discussion facilitated by the New Sudan Council of Churches. The covenant was signed by more than 300 chiefs, community and church leaders, according to a press release received by IRIN. It promises an end to conflict on the west bank of the Nile, amnesty for offences prior to the beginning of 1999, freedom of movement, the sharing of grazing and fishing rights, and the identification of missing persons and abductees.

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