Sudan Agrees to Talks With Southern Rebels
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — The government, encouraged by a string of military victories, has agreed in principle to hold peace talks in Nigeria next month with southern Sudanese rebels.
Government forces have recaptured a succession of southern towns over the last seven weeks in their biggest offensive since the civil war began in 1983.
But Western diplomats say that despite the setbacks, the rebels in the black Christian and animist south are unlikely to come to terms with a Khartoum government dominated by militants determined to convert them to Islam.
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