The government of Sudan and the main Darfur rebel faction have signed a peace agreement to end three years of fighting that has killed more than 200,000 people and forced two million to flee their homes.
The head of the government's negotiating team and the leader of the rebel SLA faction signed the agreement in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, after days of intense negotiations and international pressure.
Both the government and the SLA faction said they were signing the document despite reservations over power-sharing and security in order to end the suffering in Darfur.
Aid organisations say the conflict has created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
But it was unclear whether the agreement, signed after two years of African Union-mediated talks, will translate into peace on the ground in Darfur.
A rival faction of the SLA and the smaller Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) have rejected the deal.
