Sudan: UN 'unimpressed' with Sudan's peace deal

Rebels and government forces may be talking peace in Sudan's civil war, but minority ethnic groups are still being attacked and more than a million people have been displaced, the UN's Ruud Lubbers said on Tuesday. Lubbers described the region's refugee crisis as a "humanitarian catastrophe" that is "one of the world's gravest emergencies". Government-sponsored Arab militias are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at driving the non-Arab minorities out of the western Sudanese region of Darfur. On May 11 the Sudanese government and southern rebels told United States officials they agreed to the terms of a peace deal to end their long-running civil war, but a formal agreement has yet to be signed.