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Sudan’s transitional government and the country’s main rebel group failed to reach a peace deal to end a decades-long conflict in the East African country, officials said Tuesday.
The head of the southern mediation team, Tut Galwak, said, according to a statement by the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, that the mediation committee will conduct contacts between the two delegations with the aim of bringing views closer and creating the conditions for launching a new round of negotiations, the date of which has not been set yet.
He also indicated that the two sides had reached great understandings on contentious issues, leaving “only four of the nineteen points that were being negotiated,” explaining that they were “simple issues”, expressing his hope that the next negotiating session would witness the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
The latest round of talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Popular Liberation Movement – North, led by Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu, began last month in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.
