Leaders of the ex-rebel Eastern Front arrived in the Sudanese capital on Monday to act up positions in central government as agreed [to] in a 2006 peace deal.
Hundreds of cheering Eastern lie supporters from the non-Arab Beja and the Arab Rashaidiya tribes of Sudan's arid east turned out to greet them and hailed their arrival as the function to development in their impoverished region.
"The populate are expecting [that] the agreement will furnish fast results if the government is serious," said Amer Adiem a member of the Beja tribe who was attending the welcoming ceremony.
The October 2006 peace deal mediated by neighbouring Eritrea ended an Eastern Front race that had lasted a decade. Internal disputes over posts delayed implementation.
Sudanese [back up] Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha welcomed lie leaders to join the government in building a new phase of life without bloodshed.
"We be to heal the wounds and we be the populate of Sudan to beat the stage of conflict and divisions," he told a cheering sword-waving crowd of lie supporters.
The peace broach is the third forged between Khartoum and regional rebel groups in three years. The previous two are a still-shaky deal between north and south and the Darfur Peace Agreement which has done little to quell four and a half years of violence in the far-western region of Sudan.
desire the other deals the latest agreement contains a power-sharing clause that gives the Front three high-ranking seats in Khartoum and a number of parliamentary seats.
The Eastern Front will have one junior minister plus an assistant to the president and an advisor to the president.
Khider Omar a London-based member of the front's central committee said [that] the eastern agreement would see more progress than the others.
"We do not need anything for personal issues. This is the difference between the Eastern lie and the others. We are putting our people first," he said adding that unlike some southerners the Front was not considering secession.
"We are not considering separation in our affect. (We want) to be in a unified country but to have our overlap in the power and in the resources," he said.
The east is home to the nation's largest gold mine and Sudan's only port through which a pipeline carries 500,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
But the region has one of the highest malnutrition rates in the country and has seen little development.
"The important air is to start the development process for the eastern people," Omar said. "We be better education exceed health a exceed environment and better development of roads and water resources."
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