El-Nomeri opposes the separation of south Sudan
Sudan, Politics, 5/13/1998

The Sudanese opposition specified May 27 as the date for holding the meetings of the the democratic national alliance ( NDA), leadership council in Cairo.

Meanwhile Sudanese opposition sources told ArabicNews.com that the Sudanese opposition leaders demanded clarification from Sudanese People's Liberation Army leader John Garang about the agreement with the Sudanese government which includes the beginning of a referendum on self-determination in southern Sudan.

The head of the assembly, and the leader of the democratic unionist party, Mohammed Osman El-Merghani; former Sudanese prime minister and Nation's Party (Umma) leader Sadiq El-Mahdi; and head of the alliance forces, Brigadier Abdul Aziz Khaled will all participate in the opposition meeting although Garang has not yet specified his stance.

Meanwhile former Sudanese President Jafar El-Nomeri, who is living in Egypt since he was discharged in 1985, has come out in opposition to the separation of south from Sudan, saying that it is a great disgrace on all Sudanese to abandon Sudanese unity.

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