The Middle East News Agency says that officials from Egypt and Libya are meeting in the Libyan capital Tripoli tomorrow later today -- Wednesday to discuss their initiative to end the sixteen-year-old civil war in Sudan.

Egypt and Libya want all parties in the conflict to appoint representatives to a committee that will be charged with convening a reconciliation conference.

But the biggest southern opposition group, the Sudan People's Liberation Army, says the plan should be integrated in a more limited one being backed by the United States and other African countries.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service