Rebel officials said the deal included a list of areas to be fleshed out in talks, including compensation for Darfuris, access for aid groups and the topics of power sharing and wealth sharing.
These include determining the border; security arrangements; citizenship issues; wealth, sharing including oil revenues; a framework for future north-south co-operation; and the status of Abyei (a community that straddles the north-south border).
While conditional compensation grants are a step forward, they remain only a partial fix for the broader distortions created by HRC wealth sharing.
The reforms they are demanding — power sharing, wealth sharing and democratizing Sudan's militarized regime — are the same ones that the rebels are fighting for in Darfur.
Asked to confirm that a deal on wealth sharing had been reached, the chief mediator, Lazaro Sumbeiywo, a retired Kenyan Army general, said, "They are still drafting".
"I am getting information that they have agreed on wealth sharing," he said, referring to Sudan's government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, whose representatives are meeting in the Kenyan town of Naivasha.
