21.   Machar changed the name of his faction to South Sudan Independence Movement, with a military wing called South Sudan Independence Army early last year.

22.   Meanwhile, attempts to bring the rival factions to the negotiation table have stalled.

23.   Meanwhile, the United Nations and Pakistan is continuing its attempts to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table.

24.   No warring factions to separate.

25.   Sogbandi is a member of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, a rival faction to the LPC.

26.   Several attempts to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table have failed.

27.   Speaking to Zimbabwe journalists Wednesday after an hour-long meeting with President Robert Mugabe, Nyerere said the sanctions had failed to get the Burundian factions to the negotiating table.

28.   Sihanouk left frustrated at his inability to bring sparring political factions to the negotiating table.

29.   Taylor has appointed people from former enemy factions to his Cabinet and is negotiating with international lending institutions for money to rebuild the country.

30.   The hard-line Taliban government slammed India Monday because it invited a representative of a rival Afghan faction to the Nonaligned Movement conference being held in New Delhi.