US Envoy Returns to Sudan Amid Activists' Criticism - The Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) -- President Barack Obama's envoy to Sudan launched a new mission Wednesday to overcome obstacles in the country's fragile north-south peace deal, as activists sharply criticized U.S. policies as too lenient on the Khartoum government.

The 2005 peace deal put an end to the 21-year-old civil war between the mostly Arab and Muslim north and rebels in the Christian-animist south that left 2 million people dead and 4 million displaced. But the deal is plagued by distrust between the two sides and has repeatedly threatened to unravel, bringing to the two sides to the brink of war.

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