The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the best known, and the Liberty and Justice Movement (LJM), a clutch of small rebel outfits, say they will make concessions over how Sudan's wealth and power can be shared.
Soon after, a second group sprang up, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
He has good reason to be afraid: two weeks ago 35 refugees were killed in an attack on a similar camp.For despite a formal ceasefire of a year's standing, between the rebel groups of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on the one hand and the Sudanese government in Khartoum on the other, everyone agrees that security has sharply deteriorated.
The two main rebel movements, the SLA and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), are refusing to take part in the Doha talks.
A new dawn amid the golf carts Mud, glorious mud ReprintsIn the past few weeks Sudan's government has taken advantage of the absence of many JEM fighters in Chad to attack their home bases in Darfur, north of el-Geneina, West Darfur's capital (see map).
Significantly, the other most important rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army faction led by Abdul Wahid al-Nur, has condemned the JEM agreement and still refuses to negotiate with Mr Bashir's government at all.
It is only a matter of time before the resulting fall in supplies to the camps restarts the cycle of under-nourishment and disease that had been brought under control last year.Rebellion broke out in Darfur in 2003, led by two groups, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
But they have at least become central to a peace process often marked by bickering over more trivial matters.When a co-ordinated bomb attack killed more than 180 people in Mumbai on July 11th, Indian officials and politicians were swift to blame it on the Pakistan-based militant groups Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JEM).
Perhaps the most eerie work, a short film by Jem Cohen called "Little Flags", assembles slow-motion footage of a parade held in 1991 to mark the end of the first Gulf War, filmed in downtown Manhattan with the World Trade Centre in the background.
Mary's working-class lover, Jem Wilson, is indicted for the crime, but Mary helps prove his innocence.
So much so that historian Jem Roberts decided to pen a history of the historical series, The True History of the Blackadder.
