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 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The presidents of Sudan and Chad signed a peace agreement Thursday to suppress attacks by armed groups operating along their shared border, a move toward stability in Chad and the battered Darfur region of Sudan.
The pact, signed by Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Chad's Idriss Deby, is meant to end cross-border attacks in the Darfur frontier region and comes even as Chad accused Sudan of backing a new rebel advance into its territory. Sudan denied the charges.
"We hope that this accord will open a new page in the relations between the two countries," al-Bashir told reporters after the signing in Senegal's capital, Dakar.
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