International pressure is mounting on the government of Sudan and the main rebel movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), to make peace or risk sanctions. Yielding to the pressure, SPLA leader John Garang and Sudan's first vice-president Ali Osman Mohamed Taha began consultations Thursday evening in Naivasha, a town 85 kilometres northwest of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, to salvage the talks which have already collapsed seven times since last year.