ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Peace talks between the Sudanese government and the two rebel groups in troubled western region of Darfur will be held in Nigerian capital Abuja on August 23.

    The talks, which will be organized by the African Union (AU), is cited as part of the AU efforts aimed at achieving a political solution to the conflict in Darfur, said a press release of AU on Saturday.

    The Sudanese government and Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, which held their first round of political talks last month in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia,collapsed after the movements set six conditions before a political dialogue with the Sudan government can take place.

    The movements said that unless the government accepted the conditions for political dialogue, they would never sit together for any other political dialogue.

    Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also the Chairman of the AU, and Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of the AU Commission, then began a series of consultations with the Sudanese parties to fix the venue and date of a later meeting, according tothe release.

    Indigenous farmers in Darfur have long feuded with Arab nomads over shrinking resources in Darfur, especially water and usable land. The conflict have escalated into what the United Nations called the world's current worst humanitarian crisis since the indigenous revolted against Khartoum government last February, as over 30,000 people were killed and more than one million displaced,largely blamed on a well-armed Arab militia called the "Janjaweed."

    Last week, the UN Security Council passed a resolution on the Darfur crisis, urging the Sudanese government to disarm Janjaweed or face sanctions against the country.

    UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said on Friday that the Sudanese government has finalized an agreement with the UN on steps to disarm the Janjaweed in the next 30 days. Enditem