2006
5 May: The predominantly Zaghawa Sudan Liberation Army–Minni Minawi (SLA–
MM) and the Sudanese government sign the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in
Abuja; SLA–Abdul Wahid Mohamed al Nur (SLA–AW) and the Justice and Equality
Movement (JEM) do not. Limited support for the agreement and a failure to sell (or
even explain) it to civil society, Darfur’s Arabs, and the masses in the displaced
camps, plus scant attention to implementation as insecurity deepens, condemn it to
irrelevance. A decision to seek wider support by allowing splinter groups to sign
Declarations of Commitment backfires, encouraging factional splits and divide-andrule
tactics. In September United Nations (UN) Special Envoy Jan Pronk will tell the
UN Security Council: ‘In hindsight, maybe we should have taken more time. Not to
get a better agreement, but in order to bring on board all parties
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