Sudan peace talks resume in Kenya after Christmas break

AFP, December, 2003

NAIROBI (AFP) — Peace talks between Sudan's government and southern rebels to discuss the remaining sticking points in a peace process aimed at ending two decades of civil war resumed, mediators said.

"The two leaders have resumed negotiations after the Christmas holiday," chief mediator Lazaro Sumbeiywo, a retired Kenyan army general, told AFP by telephone from Naivasha, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of the Nairobi.

A week ago, Khartoum, whose delegation in the talks is led by Vice President Ali Osman Taha, and John Garang, the head of the the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), reached a rough agreement on sharing the proceeds from the country's 300,000 daily barrels of oil.

Representatives from the government and the SPLA are now tackling...