U.S. Sends Envoy to Pursue Peace Pact
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick was dispatched to push for a peace agreement to end political and ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Zoellick’s trip was announced in Washington after the first day of a two-day deadline extension for a settlement ended without a pact at talks in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
Sudan’s government has said it will accept the accord, but rebel groups are still pressing additional demands.
Since 2003, at least 180,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million have been driven from their homes in the western region of the nation.
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