Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 12/28/1998
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of December 28, 1998
- El-Turabi is visiting Doha today
Hassan El-Turabi, the chairman of the Sudanese national council, is paying a one-week unofficial visit to Doha, made at the invitation of the Qatar Center for the Future Studies to deliver political and religious lectures. Qatar-Sudan, Politics, 12/31/1998 - Sudanese opposition calls for parliamentary elections with international supervision
Dailies published on Tuesday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, stated that the Sudanese opposition will deliver to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir a memorandum calling for parliamentary elections under international supervision. Sudan, Politics, 12/31/1998 - Sudanese official links reconciliation with opposition to acceptance of constitution
A Sudanese official has downplayed the possibility of the success of any Egyptian initiative to achieve reconciliation between the Sudanese government and the northern opposition. Sudan, Politics, 12/30/1998 - Some 27 persons to be tried in Khartoum over explosions Sudan, Judicial, 12/30/1998
- 163 soldiers freed as another sign of Sudanese seriousness about liberties
Sudanese Minister of Defense Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Suleiman issued a decision that dropped the remainder of sentences for 163 soldiers. Sudan, Judicial, 12/29/1998 - Sudanese opposition announces the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers
The Sudanese opposition Democratic National Opposition announced on Saturday the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers in an ambush carried out by its troops in the province of Kassala in the eastern part of Sudan on Thursday. Sudan, Politics, 12/28/1998 - Sudan to liberalize press laws Sudan, Politics, 12/28/1998