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May 6, 2023

Agence France-Presse: Darfur Rebels Resume Talks With Khartoum. Darfur's most active rebel group resumed Qatari-brokered talks with Sudanese government officials Wednesday aimed at reaching an agreement for lasting peace in the war-ravaged region. "We have come here with conditions and the desire of the international community to carry out the deal we have signed," JEM spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam said in Doha. The U.S. envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, who is due in Khartoum later Wednesday, attended the meeting along with Qatari minister of state for foreign affairs Ahmad bin Abdullah al-Mahmud and U.N. representatives. The JEM last month rebuffed Qatari efforts to broker new peace talks, charging that Khartoum had failed to honour a confidence-building deal in February aimed at paving the way for more substantial peace negotiations.

Agence France-Presse: Sudan-backed rebels enter Chad. Sudanese-backed rebels closed in on a key town in the east of the country Tuesday, said a Chadian minister, as the government denounced its neighbour for breaking a freshly signed peace deal. Hissene, Chad's communications minister, said the rebels had penetrated around 100 kilometres (60 miles) inside Chadian territory and were closing in on the town of Goz Beida. "They are on board several hundred vehicles. We've been tracking their movements since (they left) Sudan." "However, for the moment there has been no contact with government forces," he added. France said Tuesday it was worried about the security of civilians. "We are following with great concern the situation in the east of Chad," foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier told a press conference in which he called on both countries to implement the peace deal. "For the moment, there is no major interruption to humanitarian activities, essential services remain active," said Katy Thiam, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, from Abeche.

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Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)