In this file photo Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir (R) meets with former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi at the headquarters of the National Congress in Khartoum on July 16, 2008 (AFP)
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Russian envoy to Sudan Mikhail Margelov (L) speaks to Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir January 29, 2009
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Sudan People?s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secreteray General, Pagan Amum (AFP)
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Sudan finance and economy minister Awad Al-Jaz (AFP)
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Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi attends the opening of the African heads of State summit on February 2, 2009 in Addis Ababa. (AFP)
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Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir arrives at the UN compound for a consultative meeting on February 1, 2009 before the opening of the 12th African Union summit in Addis Ababa (AFP)
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SPLM deputy Secretary General Yasir Arman
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Moses Simangi Sogora (photo R. Ruati)
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.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to members of the media at the United Nations headquarters (Reuters)
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TV footage showing Sudanese 2nd Vice president Ali Osman Taha upon his arrival in Turkey
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Khalil Ibrahim, rebel leader of the JEM, during a meeting with AU envoy to Darfur Salim Ahmed Salim in the area of Kariarii, near the Chadian border July 8, 2007
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (C) leaves after a closed-door session at the 12th African Union Summit in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa February 4, 2009 (Reuters)
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A Rwandan soldier serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) (AFP)
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Darfuri refugees camp out on the border, near Birak, a few kilometeres from the border with Sudan, March 6, 2008. (Reuters)
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The head of UNAMID, Rodolphe Adada, (L) speaks during a meeting with the leader of the rebel JEM Khalil Ibrahim (R) held in the Chadian capital Ndjamena on Feb 5, 2009 (photo provided by the UNAMID)
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Sudanese ambassador at the United Nations (UN) Abdel-Mahmood Abdel-Haleem (AP)
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A file photo showing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon left, and Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir (AP)
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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, left, speaks at a press conference as Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, right, looks on, at the seat of the Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, July 14, 2008 (AP)
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Sudan president Omer Al-Bashir (AFP)
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Student protesters demonstrating in front of the US State Department (ST)
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File photo showing Israeli former Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin, right, listens to Egyptian Intelligence Minister Omar Soliman, left, and Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Abu el-Gheit, center (AP)
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Heba Aly
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The International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo
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JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim
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Mediators attempting to broker an end to the six-year war in Darfur (from L-R) United Nations and African Union chief negotiator on Darfur Djibril Bassole, Qatar’s state minister for foreign affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmud, OIC secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihasanoglu, Arab League chief Amr Mussa and African Union commission chairman Jean Ping meet in Doha on February 9, 2009 (AFP)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, welcomes Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Mubarak is on a 4-day tour in Europe (AP)
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (Getty Images)
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general view of the Darfur peace talks meeting with representatives of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in Doha, February 10, 2009 (Reuters)
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Khartoum Refinery Co. Ltd. installation in Sudan (Xinhua)
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Kids in Bor (Ph Thon)
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Sen. John Kerry (AP)
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Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin (Getty Images)
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Sudan army spokesperson Brigadier General Osman Al-Agbash
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Geit (C) speaks with Sudan’s president Omar al-Beshir during a meeting in Khartoum on February 14, 2009 (AFP)
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Sir Geoffrey Nice
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Sudanese presidential adviser Nafi Ali Nafi (R) and Amin Hassan Omer attend a Darfur peace talks meeting with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement in Doha, February 10, 2009 (Reuters)
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Abdel Basit Sabdarat, Minister of Justice of Sudan (AP)
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A file photo showing an Aerial view of an Abyei village (AP)
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German Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Gernot Erler
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Sudanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Karti, right, shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 (AP)
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Sudan’s senior presidential assistant Minni Arcua Minnawi
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Qatari PM Hamad bin Jasim Al-Thani (AFP)
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) and Sudan’s senior presidential assistant Minni Arcua Minnawi (L) talk during their meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo February 17, 2009 (Al-Ahram)
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Sudanese ambassador at the UN Abdel-Mahmood Abdel-Haleem
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Sudanese rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representative Jibril Ibrahim (R) exchanges agreements of good intentions with Amin Hassan Omar, a member of the Sudanese government delegation at the latest meeting between representatives of the Sudanese government and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in an attempt to broker an end to the six-year war in Darfur, in Doha, February 17, 2009 (Reuters)
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Sudanese rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representative Gibril Ibrahim (R) shakes hands with Amin Hassan Omar, a member of the Sudanese government delegation, after the signing of an agreement of good intentions, in Doha, February 17, 2009. (Reuters)
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president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir (right) shakes hand with Abel Alier head of electoral commission (Sudanese Media Center)
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Bishop Edwardo Hiboro Kussala (R. Ruati)
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International Criminal Court (ICC)
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Edward Lino
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Sudan’s FM Deng Alor
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Salah Gosh, the head of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Service
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ago: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) and Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir talk during their meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo February 22, 2009 (Reuters)
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Sudan’s Minister of Energy and Mining Al-Zubeir Ahmed al-Hassan speaks during an interview in Khartoum February 22, 2009 (Reuters)
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File photo showing Sudanese former prime minister and the opposition Umma party leader Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, left receiving Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Khartoum, Sudan Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 (AP)
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Pope Benedict XVI (L) acknowledges the crowd during his weekly general audience at the Vatican (Reuters)
this photo made available by Albany Associates, a United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid) Police Advisor, right, is seen at the ZamZam internally displaced people’s camp outside El Fasher (AP)
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Libyan leader and chairman of the African Union, AU, Moammar Gadhafi attends a ceremony in Tripoli, Libya Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 (AP)
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Top contendors for US special envoy to Sudan; John Prendergast (left), Roger Winter (Center), Senator Bill Frist (right)
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An Irish soldier from the European Union Force in Chad (EUFOR) (Reuters)
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Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit (AFP)
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Samatha Power speaking during a rally of Save Darfur (photo Save Darfur)
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Sudan’s Umma Party leader Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi riding a horse on his way to the Umma party convention (AFP)
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Riek Machar
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deputy Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Bin Hili
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Oman’s Foreign Minister Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah (Reuters)
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From left to right: Secretary of external affairs at the Darfur United Resistance Front (URF) Tag Al-Din Bashir; Leader of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) legacy faction Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur; Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) humanitarian coordinator Suleiman Jamous; Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim