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 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Sudan's president, long accused by the West of fomenting strife that has killed tens of thousands, on Tuesday said he was committed to peace both in the south of the country and the stricken Western province of Darfur.
Omar al-Basir said he hoped peace negotiations would end the fighting in Darfur, where the Sudanese leader has long resisted the deployment of a joint AU-U.N. force, despite having approved it in principle.
His government has also been accused of fueling the conflict in the western region — where an estimated 250,000 people have died and 2 million been driven from their homes — by arming local Arab militias known as the janjaweed who are blamed for widespread atrocities against civilians.
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