Sudan: UN Security Council to meet in Nairobi

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to meet in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi next month in order to forge peace in southern Sudan, Africa’s longest running civil war. "My hope is that the parties will certainly close the differences very, very substantially, and it would be great if there were a peace agreement," said US Ambassador John Danforth, who sponsored the resolution. The Security Council will hold official sessions in Nairobi on November 18-19, which will be aimed at giving momentum to solving the crisis in Darfur, in western Sudan.