KHARTOUM, July 27 (Reuters) - Sudan carried out air strikes on a village in Darfur, killing one civilian, peacekeepers UNAMID said on Wednesday, in the first confirmed strike since Khartoum signed a peace deal with small rebel group Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) two weeks ago.
A UNAMID spokeswoman said it was unclear exactly when the strikes near Abu Hamara in South Darfur took place. A spokesman for the Sudanese army was not immediately available for comment.
The UNAMID spokesman said the attack could have taken place around the time of a peace agreement between Khartoum and LJM.
Analysts see little significance in the Qatar-brokered deal as the Darfur&${esc.hash}39;s biggest rebel groups have rejected it. Rebel divisions and continued fighting have been the two main blocks to previous peace talks in Chad, Nigeria, Libya and Doha.
Sudan&${esc.hash}39;s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
A counter-insurgency campaign against non-Arab rebels demanding more autonomy in Darfur in 2003 sparked a humanitarian crisis in the western Sudan region in which more than two million people have fled, according to the United Nations.
Violence peaked in 2003-2004 but analysts say there is still no end in sight to the conflict. (Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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