The United Nations envoy tasked with re-energizing the peace process in Darfur is heading to the violence-wracked Sudanese region for talks with local authorities, tribal leaders, civil society groups, Arab nomads and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Jan Eliasson, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Darfur, travels first to El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, before heading later to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, where he is expected to stay overnight.