Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 8/18/1997
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of August 18, 1997
- Food gap increases in 3 Sudanese areas
A United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report pointed to the need to provide 74,000 tons of food in the form of emergency aid, including 39,000 tons for the relief of 2.6 million Sudanese affected by the civil war. Sudan, Agriculture, 8/23/1997 - Al-Bashir and the opposition leaders
Northern and southern Sudanese opposition parties, united under the banner of the National Democratic Alliance, agreed to disregard the so-called peace offers made recently by President Omar Al-Bashir. Sudan, Analysis, 8/23/1997 - Fighting fronts will witness an important event
Sudanese commander Yasser Arman said the war front will witness an important action with a destructive impact on the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime ruling the Sudan. Sudan, Local, 8/23/1997 - Sudanese and the national cake
"We support the call of South African President Nelson Mandella for a ceasefire with the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army)," Sudan's President Omar Bashir said. Sudan, Analysis, 8/22/1997 - Sudan talks to be hosted by South Africa
South Africa is to host Sudan peace talks in an attempt to end 14 years of hostilities in south Sudan. Sudan, Politics, 8/22/1997 - Islamic education cooperation between Syria and Sudan
The grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of Syria, Sheikh Ahmed Kaftaro, received a delegation from the Holy Quran University in Sudan. Syria-Sudan, Religion, 8/22/1997 - War expectations escalate in south Sudan
One of the senior commanders of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) expects the rebels to step up the war before the next peace talks in Kenya. Sudan, Politics, 8/21/1997 - Sudan talks with SPLA delayed
Ali Osman Taha, the Sudanese foreign minister, said that peace talks between the Khartoum government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) had been postponed. Sudan, Politics, 8/19/1997 - Improved relations expected between Egypt and Sudan
Abdel Aziz Shedw, deputy speaker of the Sudan's parliament, said he expected a "real breakthrough" in his country's "troubled relations with Egypt." Sudan-Egypt, Politics, 8/18/1997