Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 8/11/1997
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of August 11, 1997
- Sudan membership in IMF reconsidered
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is currently preparing for a meeting, to be held in late August, to discuss Sudan's membership in the fund and whether it should be suspended or not. Sudan, Economics, 8/15/1997 - 400 Sudanese families left homeless
Heavy floods swept Bawga, north of Khartoum, in the Nile River state of Sudan. Sudan, Local, 8/14/1997 - Nile fraternity to meet on November 26
The first Egyptian-Sudanese conference for the Nile valley fraternity will be held in Cairo on November 26 under the title "Towards a better Egyptian-Sudanese future." Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 8/14/1997 - Sudan to discuss peace talks with South Africa's Mandela
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir is going to discuss ways to end a 14-year-civil war in southern Sudan with South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela in Pretoria today, officials said. Sudan, Politics, 8/13/1997 - South rebels massacre Sudanese forces
SPLA leader John Garang’s forces successfully seized the runways as a step toward seizing Terkaka from all sides and controlling the lakes around and river roads. Sudan, Military, 8/12/1997