Sudan's government and rebel forces said they failed to agree on a ceasefire after three weeks of negotiations to end a three-year conflict. The country has been fighting an insurgency in the southern provinces of Blue Nile and South Kordofan since 2011. The talks, held in Ethiopia, collapsed largely because the rebels insisted that a ceasefire in the two regions be negotiated in conjunction with one in neighboring Darfur. The insurgeny has been mounted mostly by former civil war fighters who were left in Sudan after South Sudan seceded.
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