The time has come for the international community to learn from its previous mistakes in Darfur. The Abuja talks were a failure. At Abuja, inexcusable reasons – misjudgments and miscalculations — were given for the root causes of the conflict. The talks also proved an underestimation of the rebel’s power on the ground. Thus the international community forced an inadequate and unequal Abuja Peace Agreement: it fell apart before it was even signed.