Chairman of the Transitional Military Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah , South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok greet people during the singing of the Sudan peace deal with rebels groups in Juba, South Sudan, on August 31, 2020.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and rebel chief Abdelaziz al-Hilu signed the peace deal in neighbouring Ethiopia, Sudan's official news agency SUNA said.
The deal is significant because Hilu, a veteran guerilla fighter who leads a faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), had been one of two rebel leaders who had rejected an earlier peace deal with Khartoum.
The latest agreement means only one key group remains still fighting, a wing of the Darfur-based Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Paris-based Abdelwahid Nour.
Khartoum,
Sudan and a key rebel group that had refused to join other opposition forces in a previous peace deal have signed their own agreement, officials on both sides said Friday.
