Sudan's vice president and main rebel leader sign comprehensive
peace agreement to end Africa's longest-running conflict

Sudan's Vice President, Ali Osman Taha, left, and Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, second right,
look on as SPLA Chairman John Garang, right, shanks hands with Sudan's President
Hassan Omer El-Bashir after the exchange of the peace agreement documents at Nyayo Stadium Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005. Sudan's vice president and the country's main rebel leader signed a comprehensive peace agreement to end Africa's longest-running conflict Sunday,
January 9, 2005, concluding an eight-year process to stop a civil war that has cost more than
2 million lives since 1983. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Thousands in southern Sudan celebrate peace deal: United Nations

Some of the 10,000 people attending a rally in Juba, Sudan Monday Jan. 10, 2005.
Southern Sudan will now get development instead of conflict, Sudan's president told
the more than 10,000 people who packed the stadium to celebrate the end of a war
that raged around this city for 21 years, killing, maiming and displacing millions
of southern Sudan's people. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)

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