En ny instans under den sudanesiske regering er blevet søsat til at overvåge en fredsaftale, der skal ende krigen i det vestlige Darfur.
Det skriver BBC online onsdag.
The deal was reached last year, but signed by only one of Darfur’s weaker rebel movements. The new Darfur Regional Authority aims to share power and wealth, compensate those affected by the nine-year war and help the return of displaced people.
More than two million people remain in camps because of the fighting. The UN estimates that more than 300.000 people have died in the conflict, mostly of disease. But the government in Khartoum puts the figure at about 12.000 people and says the number of dead has been exaggerated for political reasons.
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and other officials, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur – which they deny. The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says fighting in Darfur, where an UN-African Union peacekeeping mission is deployed, has died down since 2006 – but the region is still extremely insecure.
Darfur’s most powerful rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, is in disarray since its leader, Khalil Ibrahim, was killed in December, BBC reports.
