The tribal leaders of African Masalit farmers and nomadic Arab cattle traders in Western Darfur State on Saturday signed “a comprehensive agreement” to settle a feud over water, grazing and land rights which claimed almost 300 lives earlier this year, according to media reports. A peace charter included the demarcation of cattle routes away from Masalit land, agreement on water rights and a mechanism for the resolution of differences. The state of West Darfur is to pay almost US $60,000 to the Masalit and US $2,400 to the Arab tribes in diyah (blood money) and compensation for their respective deaths and damages in January and February. Masalit insistence on adequate compensation, and Arab refusal to accept collective responsibility, had earlier threatened to undermine the peace conference, the BBC reported.
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