Sudan, Central Africa tribes to discuss land disputes

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Mar 2, 2005 (PANA) — A conference to reconcile ethnic groups from Sudan and Central Africa Republic (CAR) will be held Thursday in Umdafooq, a Sudanese border town between the two countries, according to a reliable source here.

The source, which requested anonymity, told PANA that the
meeting under the auspices of the country’s troubled south
Darfur governor, Al-Haj Atta Al Mannan, will focus on how
to settle the ever-growing dispute over land between the
tribes of the two African nations.

It will address, Al Mannan added, suitable ways for
co-existence between the groups along the border and how
to solve the land problems that erupt periodically between
them.

The disputes have erupted into gunfights and the spread of
arms in the area, he said.