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...hope is that Sudan's new coalition government, forged in July by the peace deal that ended a separate, 21-year civil war in the south, will succeed where the regime could not. But that prospect took a blow when rebel leader John Garang, the inspiration for Sudan's disaffected, died in a helicopter crash just three weeks after becoming Vice President...
...mourners gathered in southern Sudan to bid farewell to John Garang, many Sudanese were still struggling to understand what his death means for their country. Garang led the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (splm) during its 21-year war against the northern Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, and helped to negotiate the power-sharing agreement between the north and the south that brought the conflict to a close early this year. Three weeks ago, 60-year-old Garang arrived in Khartoum to take up his new job as Sudan's Vice President. He died last week when...
DIED. JOHN GARANG, 60, Sudanese rebel leader turned Vice President and key negotiator of a fledgling peace agreement between the Islamist government and Christian rebels in the south that, if completed, will end the longest civil war in African history; after his helicopter crashed in southern Sudan...
...from Yanukovych over the re-run; Yuschenko's inauguration cannot take place until all legal challenges are exhausted. Peace Progress SUDAN More than two decades of civil war formally came to an end as the government and southern rebels signed a peace deal that will install insurgent leader John Garang as Vice President. Khartoum announced that fresh talks with rebels in the western Darfur region would start within weeks. Making Nice NORTH KOREA Pyongyang indicated it was willing to resume talks on its nuclear program, following a four-day visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. Weathering Disaster UNITED STATES Rain...
...Chechnya aimed at reducing the breakaway republic's male population. The Federation alleged that around 50 to 80 Chechen men are abducted and murdered each month during sweep-and-search operations by Russian special forces. SUDAN Peace at Last? Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir and rebel leader John Garang met for the first time, following the signing of a preliminary peace deal by the Sudanese government and the opposition Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army (SPLA). After almost two decades of war, the two sides agreed on what they said were the most contentious issues, self-determination and the separation of religion...