Illusion of peace

More pessimism about the Abuja peace agreement, this time from Julie Flint:

Several hundred thousand people have died in Darfur, one of Sudan's most oppressed and most neglected regions, since rebellion erupted there early in 2003. Another 3 million are in need of food aid, many of them beyond the reach of aid because of insecurity and government obstacles to humanitarian relief. With a donor shortfall of $389 million, World Food Program rations cut by half and murderous, government-supported Janjaweed militias still uncontrolled, the conditions of life in the wretched displaced camps of Darfur will soon deteriorate, lethally, as the rainy season sets in.

And yet the people in those very camps are rejecting, in significant numbers, the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) that was signed in Abuja on May 5 between the government of Sudan and the faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) that is by led by Minni Minawi.

Read the rest. (Via Mick.)