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 ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's government and rebels from the war-ravaged Darfur region agreed to sit down for face-to-face talks Monday after a week of bickering that had put discussions on hold.
The sixth round of peace talks on Darfur were officially launched in mid-September but, since then, government and rebel negotiators in Nigeria's capital have not held any direct discussions.
Instead, they attended several days of seminars on peace negotiating and then waited as Darfur's main rebel group argued about the makeup of its delegation. The dispute between factions of the Sudan Liberation Army is still unresolved, but the African Union's chief mediator for Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim, said talks on power-sharing in Darfur would begin Monday.
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