NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha and rebel leader John Garang signed a declaration recommitting themselves to a series of peace protocols and officially launched a final orbed of talks aimed at ending 21 years of civil war.

NAIROBI (AFP) ??” Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha and rebel leader John Garang signed a declaration recommitting themselves to a series of peace protocols and officially launched a final orbed of talks aimed at ending 21 years of civil war.

Taha and the head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army signed the Nairobi Declaration forward the Final Phase on Peace in Sudan in the carriage of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in his Nairobi offices.

The declaration encapsulates deals struck athwart the course of two years of talks upon issues such as power- and wealth-sharing and the establishment of a six-year interim period of autonomy for southern Sudan.

The final spherical of talks covers a comprehensive ceasefire and technical aspects of its implementation. Actual negotiations are fit to resume on June 22

"The documents we have just signed with Vice President Ali Osman Taha depict a solemn ...