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Peace talks between Khartoum, SPLM/northern sector rebels collapse

Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

The peace talks between Khartoum and rebels of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector have collapsed, just five days after they were resumed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

"The African mediation has suspended the negotiations after reaching a deadlock," a source close to the two negotiating delegations, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua Monday.

The source said the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP), led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, has not informed the two delegations with any new date for resuming the talks.

He noted that the differences of the two parties focused on how to deliver the humanitarian assistance to the affected population at the two areas, adding that the SPLM/northern sector has declared its rejection of the national dialogue which the Sudanese government began early last October.

Earlier on Monday, the Sudanese government delegation to the Addis Ababa peace talks accused the SPLM/northern sector in a statement of exercising political blackmailing via non-recognition of the national dialogue.

The peace talks between the two sides kicked off last Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the patronage of the AUHIP with the aim to reach a deal to end the conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile areas.

The two areas have been witnessing armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the rebels of the SPLM/northern sector since 2011. Endit