Gerard Prunier
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/ 20 August 2007

Buying time in Darfur

In May 2006, after months of confused negotiations in Abuja, a lonely Darfur guerrilla faction, led by Minni Minnawi, signed the so-called Darfur Peace Agreement with the Khartoum government. The conditions of the agreement were disastrous: ridiculously little compensation for war victims and no reunification of the Darfur region, divided for better control by the Khartoum government into three provinces in 1994.