SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Guardian – Sudan government agrees to peace deal with five rebel groups

31/8/2020: Guardian – Sudan government agrees to peace deal with five rebel groups, by Jason Burke

 The Guardian concisely detail the Juba peace agreement, which according to Sudanese officials, has been “initialled” rather than signed, in order to allow two key holdout rebel groups to sign the final agreement - Abdelwahid el-Nur’s faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement in Darfur and Abdelaziz al-Hilu’s faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North in the Nuba Mountains.

 The agreement covers key issues around security, land ownership, transitional justice, power sharing, the return of people who fled their homes because of fighting, and provides for the dismantling of rebel forces and the integration of their fighters into the national army.