Sudan has asked South Africa to mediate on Darfur, the South African foreign minister said Tuesday as attempts to end a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 and forced 2.5 million from their homes appeared to founder.
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir made the request to his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki at a meeting Tuesday, a day after a spokesman for U.N. and African Union mediators pressed Darfur rebels to come to peace talks in Libya.
UN-AU-brokered talks opened late last month in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte without several prominent rebel leaders. Days later, a Sudanese government …

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