Sudan, rebels abandoning Darfur peace effort-EU envoy
he European Union’s envoy to Sudan on Saturday accused the government and rebels of abandoning peace efforts in Darfur and trying to solve the conflict militarily. EU envoy Pekka Haavisto was speaking as European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and the EU’s top aid official Louis Michel arrived in Khartoum to try to persuade Sudan to agree to the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur. Full Story