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WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid growing congressional unease over the situation in Sudan, the State Department's No. 2 official will travel to the East African country next week to seek progress in resolving its multiple crises, including the continuing human mayhem in Darfur.
In an initial stop in Kenya, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick will meet leaders of the faction-plagued Darfur rebel movement in hopes of encouraging them to establish a unified position for peace negotiations with Sudanese government officials. Talks are under way in Nigeria.
The glum mood among members of Congress and elsewhere stems from a spike in violence over the past month in the Darfur region of western Sudan and slow movement toward implementing the peace accord that ended the North-South war last January.
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