Darfur rebels reject Khartoum bid to split them ahead of talks
AFP, October, 2004
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KHARTOUM (AFP) — Ethnic minority rebels in Darfur have rejected an attempt by the Sudanese government to divide them ahead of a new round of peace talks in Nigeria later this month, a Khartoum daily reported.
The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said it would not take part in the talks in Abuja on October 21 unless fellow rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were also allowed to take part.
Khartoum "has no right to name which of the opposition movements can take part in the talks but can name its own delegation," SLM spokesman Mahjoub Hussein told the Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper from his base in London.
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The Sudanese government has accused the JEM of complicity in an alleged coup attempt in Khartoum last month by the Popular Congress party of jailed Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi and rejected it as a negotiating partner.
But the rebels, ...
