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| Reshuffle eases Khartoum crisis | Reshuffle eases Khartoum crisis |
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| Sudan's president has reshuffled his cabinet to try to resolve a political crisis created when former southern rebels pulled out of the coalition. | Sudan's president has reshuffled his cabinet to try to resolve a political crisis created when former southern rebels pulled out of the coalition. |
| The reshuffle came after Omar al-Bashir's first talks with southern leaders since the last week's walkout. | The reshuffle came after Omar al-Bashir's first talks with southern leaders since the last week's walkout. |
| The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) members quit the cabinet last Thursday, complaining key elements of a 2005 peace deal were being ignored. | The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) members quit the cabinet last Thursday, complaining key elements of a 2005 peace deal were being ignored. |
| The group responded to the reshuffle by saying it would rejoin the government. | The group responded to the reshuffle by saying it would rejoin the government. |
| There had been fears that the withdrawal could have jeopardised the 2005 deal that ended the 21-year north-south civil war. | |
| Under the the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the SPLM controls the southern regional government and participates in the national government in Khartoum. | |
| Some 1.5 million people died in Sudan's conflict - Africa's longest civil war - which pitted the mainly Muslim north against the Animist and Christian south before the CPA was agreed. |