Who are the Sudanese rebels agreeing peace?

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The rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), founded in 2011, includes four groups from the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and the Blue Nile.

Khartoum. Sudan's main rebel alliance has agreed a landmark peace deal with the government, raising hopes for the end of 17 years of conflict, although holdout groups remain.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and rebel leaders are due to sign the final agreement on Monday in Juba, the capital of neighbouring South Sudan, which has hosted and helped mediate the talks since late 2019.
The rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), founded in 2011, includes four groups from the western region of Darfur and the southern states of South Kordofan and the Blue Nile.
Darfur has been devastated since 2003 by a conflict that has left 300,000 people dead and 2.5 million others displaced, according to the United Nations.
Conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile erupted in 2011, following unresolved issues from bitter fighting there in Sudan's 1983-2005 civil war.
The rebel groups are largely drawn from non-Arab minority communities that long railed against Arab domination of successive governments in Khartoum.
Rebels fought troops deployed by now-toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the conflict.
After Bashir was overthrown in April 2019, the transitional government led by Hamdok has made peacemaking with the rebels one of its top priorities.

- Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) -
The SLM was founded in 2002 and is based in the vast western Darfur region.
The movement, which complained of economic and political marginalisation of Darfur, has split in sometimes rival factions.
Key leaders include Abdelwahid Nour, from the Fur ethnic group, and Minni Minnawi of the Zaghawa people.
In February 2003, the movement carried out its first major operation by attacking the city of Al-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur state.
The fighting escalated when Khartoum responded with a scorched-earth campaign.
In 2006, the SLM split into two factions following disagreements between Nour and Minnawi, who signed a peace deal with the government in Nigeria.
In 2010, Minnawi resumed fighting against Bashir's government, citing its "lack of seriousness" in honouring the agreement.
Only Minnawi's faction will sign the peace deal with Hamdok's government on Monday.
Nour, who has been based in Paris for several years, refused to take part in the negotiations.

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Who are the Sudanese rebels agreeing peace?

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