KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur peace deal has "serious flaws" and only an urgent, robust U.N. peacekeeping mission will ensure it does not collapse and further divide the violent region, a think tank report said on Tuesday.
An African Union-mediated May 5 peace deal for Sudan's west was signed by only one of three rebel negotiating factions in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
Thousands in Darfur's refugee camps have demonstrated daily against the accord saying it does not meet their basic demands and AU forces monitoring a shaky truce there have been attacked by angry and frustrated Darfuris.
"There is a very real danger that the international community, in its eagerness to get a deal, has brokered one that is structurally weak," the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a 19-page report.
"The document has serious flaws, and two of the three rebel delegations did not accept it," it added. Read more >>>
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