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...agreements, such as the Darfur Peace Agreement in Abuja, peace in eastern Sudan, peace with the political opposition groups that were outside of Sudan. We have an active diplomacy that has enabled us to remove all the external obstacles in our foreign relations, especially in Africa and the Arab world. (See pictures of Darfuri refugees...
...Bush Administration described as government-sponsored genocide. The ICC indictments, the first to be handed down against a sitting head of state, obligate the world's nations to arrest al-Bashir on sight. And yet, he points out, he has attended summits and meetings in seven African and Arab countries over the past few months. "I have not felt [any] restrictions of movement," al-Bashir told TIME in an interview that took place in the colonial-era presidential palace in Khartoum in early August. "A President has his deputies, assistants and his specialized ministers, so it's not necessary...
...embarrassment. But it is doubtful, say party delegates, that the new members of the influential Central Committee will assist Abbas in patching up with Hamas, the Islamist rival movement that beat Fatah in the elections of January 2006 and forcibly ejected Fatah militias from Gaza the following year. Arab and Western leaders have emphasized reconciliation between the rival Palestinian power centers as a key condition for moving forward with the peace process. (See pictures of Israel's assault on Gaza...
...they want to keep their identity independent. They don't mix in the structure of the Taliban. They want to avoid any confrontation with them. They want to stay there, use their facilities for training while providing ideological leadership." The Pashtun-dominated Taliban are also unlikely to accept an Arab jihadist as their leader...
...Shabak religious minority; 44 were killed on Aug. 7 in a suicide truck bombing outside a Shi'ite Turkoman village in the same area. The attacks are in Kurdish-controlled areas of Mosul and appear to be aimed at straining the already tenuous peace between Kurdish and Arab Iraqis (the Shabak, for example, have a strong affinity for the Kurds). The northern city remains a strong base for al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups, with the insurgents demanding protection money from companies and construction firms doing business in the city. (See a chronology of the war in Iraq...