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/ 8 April 2005

Militia groups threaten new-found peace in Sudan

Militia groups in southern Sudan are threatening to wreck a fragile peace that has emerged nearly three months after Khartoum and the region’s main rebel force inked a deal to end 21 years of war, residents and aid workers said on Friday. About 30 such groups continue to terrorise Upper Nile state, collecting illegal taxes and abducting locals, they said.