(VOVworld) – The African Union (AU) announced on Thursday that peace talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North will be resumed on January 22 in Berlin.

Sudan’s Ashorooq network quoted Mahmoud Kan, Head of the AU’s Liaison Office in Khartoum as saying that this new round of talks will seek ways to resolve pending issues. During unofficial talks in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa in December last year, the two sides agreed on the importance of ending war and the involvement of all parties in national dialogue. Kan said as mediator the African Union will hold a separate round of peace talks between the Sudanese government and militant groups in Darfu on January 23 in Debre Zebit, 50km from Ethiopia’s capital.