To cries of "God is great!" in Arabic and "Hallelujah!" the Islamic government of Sudan signed a peace agreement on Sunday with a Christian rebel group in the south that called for an end to one of Africa's fiercest and longest-running civil wars.
Several thousand onlookers - most of them Sudanese refugees who had known nothing but war in their homeland - danced with glee at a downtown sports arena here as Sudan's vice president, Ali Osman Taha, and the rebel leader, John Garang, initialed the agreement, which had been years in the making.
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