Dakar Accord

The Dakar accord is a peace agreement between Chad and Sudan that is expected to be released to the public on August 9, 2006. The Accord, which comes only weeks after the N'Djamena Agreement, signed on July 26, and a few months after the Tripoli Accord, signed on February 8, aims to normalize ties and effectively end fighting between the Government of Chad, the Government of Sudan, the paramilitary Janjaweed, the UFDC rebel alliance, and other anti-Déby rebel groups.

Chadian President Idriss Déby and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will meet in Dakar, Senegal on August 9 to sign the document.

After visiting the Sudanese capital Khartoum from August 3 – 6, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said he hoped "the Dakar accord establishes a definitive peace between Chad and Sudan as well as in the region. I think that we can obtain this... If they talk to each other, no one will be able to divide them. I hope I will leave from [Khartoum] with positive results on the relations between Chad and Sudan, results which we will consolidate in Dakar."^[1] On August 8, both nations announced they will immediately reopen their embassies in the two countries.^[2]

See also

• Tripoli Accord

References

1. ^ "Hopes up for Chad-Sudan peace". News 24.com. 2006-08-06. http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1978891,00.html. 
2. ^ "Chad and Sudan to reopen borders and embassies", Sparrow News, 9 Aug, 2006.