From the Dept. of Same Old Sh**, Different Day:Sudan's government and Darfur rebels agreed to formally end faltering talks on Tuesday and the African Union urged both sides to stop fighting so peace efforts could resume in January, mediators and delegates said. "The talks will be formally closed today at 4 p.m., to resume sometime in January if the Sudan government complies with the AU chairman's request for them to stop the offensive and withdraw their troops to their former positions," said Tajeddin Bashir Niam of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
The break up of peace talks in the Nigerian capital came as British aid agency Save the Children announced it was pulling all 350 of its staff out of Darfur after the killing of four of its staff and renewed clashes in the western Sudanese region. Aid community sources in the region say rebels have been attacking aid and goods convoys along the Nyala to El-Fasher road, where two Save the Children workers were killed recently.
| "How can we have a decent genocide if all you goody two-shoes keep giving the villagers food & medicine?" |