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05/17/2004:

"Rebels 'to extend war zone'"

Cairo - The head of the main rebel force in Sudan's Darfur region has threatened to extend a war affecting more than a million people to other areas if the government refuses to include it in all-round peace talks.

Abdel Wahed Mohammad Ahmad Nour, leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) warned that "we will extend the zone of our military operations to encompass Kordofan (in central Sudan), Khartoum and the east" if excluded from Sudanese peace talks entering a critical week in Kenya.

"Any agreement leaving out the SLM will not lead to real peace," Nour added in an interview published on Monday by the Arabic daily al-Hayat, where he also accused pro-government forces of breaching a shaky ceasefire reached last month. www.news24.com