Peace deal ends 21-year war — SUDAN | 世界のニュースを英語で読むならジャパンタイムズウィークリー


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Peace deal ends 21-year war

Ali Osman Mohamed Taha

Bare-chested warriors danced and turbaned heads bowed in prayer when Sudan's Islamist government and southern rebels sealed a comprehensive peace agreement Jan. 9, ending Africa's longest-running civil war.

John Garang

Sudan's First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and rebel leader John Garang signed the accord in Kenya's capital Nairobi, ending a 21-year conflict in the south that has killed an estimated 2 million people mainly by famine and disease.

The agreement did not cover a separate conflict in the western Darfur region of Africa's largest country, where almost two years of fighting have created what the United Nations calls one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

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