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News Article by BBC posted on April 29, 2006 at 16:53:36: EST (-5 GMT)
Pressure grows for Darfur peace
African Union negotiators are increasing pressure on all sides in the Darfur conflict in Sudan to meet Sunday's deadline for a peace deal.
Mediators at the talks in Nigeria are working to secure agreement from the rebels, who still express reservations.
The draft deal, which the BBC has seen, calls for pro-government Arab militias to be disarmed, and for rebel forces to be merged into Sudan's police and army.
The details emerged as the top UN human rights official was set to visit Sudan.
Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will spend six days in the country - a visit that will take in Darfur.
We have done everything to make an agreement possible
Salim Ahmed Salim
AU mediator
About 200,000 people have died and some two million have been left homeless since the conflict began in the province in 2003.
Meanwhile senior envoys from the UN and the African Union (AU) arrived late on Friday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, where the peace talks are being held.
Their arrival is "part of intensive efforts to convince the parties to sign the peace agreement submitted by the AU mediators", AU spokesman Noureddine Mezni told AFP news agency.
One-off transfer
Top AU mediator Salim Ahmed Salim said the deal could not be changed and urged all sides to sign.
"We have done everything that is possible to make an agreement possible," he said.
"We told the parties that as far the mediation is concerned this is the best we can do in the circumstances."
The peace deal, hammered out over many months, aims to end what Darfur rebels say is long-standing neglect of the province by the Khartoum government.
The 85-page draft calls for a one-off transfer of $300m to Darfur, with $200m a year for the region thereafter.
It also contains proposals for power-sharing, disarming Arab Janjaweed militias and integrating rebels into the armed forces.
Rebels leaders have expressed reservations - with some reportedly demanding the Sudanese vice-presidency.
There are also concerns over the way rebel forces are due to be merged into army units.
US protests
Rebel spokesman Ahmed Tugod told AFP that the two guerrilla groups would agree on a common position and present it AU mediators.
The AU - which has 7,000 peacekeepers in Darfur - has struggled to stop the violence between the rebels and the government-backed Janjaweed militias.
The UN envoy in Sudan, Jan Pronk, says 400 people are now being killed each month in the fighting - double the number that it was a few months ago.
In the United States, protests are planned in several cities over the weekend to increase pressure on the Sudanese government.
On Friday, US President George W Bush endorsed the rallies, saying "genocide" in Sudan was unacceptable.
"I want the Sudanese government to understand the United States of America is serious about solving this problem," he said.
"We expect the Sudanese government... to make a more concerted effort to control the Janjaweed and protect human life."
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