"Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Doha this evening to attend the signing ceremony for a Darfur peace agreement ... between the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement," QNA said.
The signing is due to take place at 1300 GMT on Thursday but the main armed factions of the vast Darfur region of western Sudan will be absent.
At least 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur and 1.8 million people fled their homes since the conflict broke out in 2003 between non-Arab rebels and the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime, according to the United Nations.
The government puts the death toll at 10,000. (*)
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