Encouraged by the signing of a peace deal with southern rebels, Sudan's president suggested Saturday that he may hold power and wealth sharing talks with rebels fighting army forces in the western region of Darfur. Thousands of Sudanese turned out in the capital, Khartoum, to welcome the return of the government delegation that negotiated the deal in the Kenyan city of Naivasha on Friday to end the 21-year southern civil war. Opposition groups also embraced the peace accords and cease-fire agreement signed by government officials and southern rebels.The agreements cleared the way for warring sides to sign a comprehensive peace deal next month in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. South African President Thabo Mbeki, who witnessed the deal signing in Naivasha, also was greeted by 50,000 people in Darfur, the site of a separate conflict in western Sudan that has killed tens of thousands of villagers and displaced nearly 2 million from their homes since fighting started in February 2003.