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Chinese Darfur envoy meets Sudan's Beshir
Khartoum (AFP) June 2, 2009 China's special envoy to Darfur met Monday with Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir and pledged three million dollars in humanitarian aid for the volatile region, Sudanese officials said. Liu Guijin "greeted the president for the beginning of the talks in Doha between the JEM and the government," Sudanese foreign ministry official Ali Youssif told AFP. A new round of talks between the government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the most active rebel group, are being held under Qatari mediation on an exchange of prisoners and eventually a ceasefire. He said Liu also announced three million dollars in humanitarian aid for Darfur. The United Nations says up to 300,000 people have died in the western Somali region from the combined effects of war, famine and disease and about 2.7 million fled their homes. Sudan puts the death toll at 10,000. China is seen as a key to ending the six-year war between the Khartoum government and Darfuri rebels because it is an ally of the Khartoum regime, a weapons supplier and importer of Sudanese oil. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Chinese envoy in Sudan for Darfur talksKhartoum (AFP) May 29, 2009 China's special envoy to Darfur arrived in Sudan on Friday for a five-day visit for talks with officials on the situation in the volatile western region, an AFP correspondent said. Liu Guijin flew in from the Qatari capital Doha, where he met this week with Darfur envoys from the four other permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, France, Russia and the United States -- and ... read more |
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