The presidents of Sudan and Chad have agreed in principle to prevent armed groups from operating along their shared border area, including the conflict-ridden Darfur region.In signing the peace deal on Thursday Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, and Idriss Deby, his Chadian counterpart, committed to implement past accords that have previously failed to end the violence in the region

The UN Security Council has expressed concern about the continued conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.Members of the council urged on Tuesday a fast deployment of peacekeeping forces into the area.The government of Omar al-Bashir, the president, has been accused of supporting the Janjawid militias to fight anti-government groups from Darfur's ethnic African communities.

South Darfur (Arabic; transliterated: Janob Darfur) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the three states that compose the region of Darfur in western Sudan. It has an area of 127,300 km² and an estimated population of approximately 2,700,000 (2000). Nyala is the capital of the state. Accordingly Darfur is the biggest state in Sudan