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Dutch development minister to visit Sudan this week

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by Staff Writers
The Hague (AFP) May 23, 2006
Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Agnes van Ardenne will visit Sudan this week to discuss peace deals in Darfur and Sudan and aid from The Netherlands, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.

"Given the close involvement of The Netherlands, the peace accords in Darfur and between the south and north of Sudan will be raised, as well as reconstruction," the ministry said in a statement.

The minister is due to leave Friday for a four-day visit.

She will discuss with Sudanese leaders a meeting on Darfur reconstruction set to take place in The Hague in June at the request of the Sudanese parties, the statement said.

Khartoum and the majority faction of the main rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), signed a peace deal on May 5 sponsored by the African Union, aiming to end more than three years of fighting in the western Sudanese province.

Violence and famine have killed some 300,000 people in Darfur and displaced 2.4 million since all-out fighting erupted in 2003 between ethnic minority rebels and government troops and their proxy Janjaweed militia.

The conflict in Darfur, a semi-desert region bordering Chad, has left some 3,000 dead so far this year alone, according to UN estimates. Another 400,000 people have been displaced.

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