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.