The real rebels

Western and African diplomats lose the plot as a new opposition alliance emerges

African Union and Western diplomatic strategy is being outpaced by military and political changes in Darfur. Their absolutist support for May's badly flawed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) ties them to the National Congress/National Islamic Front (NC/NIF) regime in Khartoum and to Minni Arkou Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M).

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