Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 3/20/2000
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of March 20, 2000
- Five journalists and a poet arrested in Sudan
The Sudanese security authorities arrested five journalists and a poet to interrogate them for violating the national security law and the armed forces law due to a poem and topics that were published by the independent newspaper Sahafa. Sudan, Politics, 3/25/2000 - Sudanese FM discusses in Asmara military confrontation between the government and the opposition
The Sudanese Foreign Ministry has announced that Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael visited Eritrea on Wednesday to discuss with the officials in Eritrea in the confrontation between the Sudanese opposition and the government's army on the borders between the two countries at the end of the past week. Sudan-Eritrea, Politics, 3/24/2000 - Ummah Party leadership heads to Khartoum Sudan, Politics, 3/23/2000
- Tripartite Summit in Cairo
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael said that Cairo will make arrangements to convene a meeting bringing together Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi on the sideline of the meetings of the Euro-African summit. Sudan-Regional, Politics, 3/23/2000 - Early presidential elections in Sudan Sudan, Politics, 3/22/2000
- Mubarak, El-Bashir and Gaddafi to convene in Cairo on margin of African- European summit Regional-Sudan, Politics, 3/21/2000
- Sudanese opposition meetings in Cairo at week's end
The executive body of the temporary general trusteeship for the opposition Sudanese National Democratic Alliance is due to convene its first meeting at the end of current week in Cairo. Sudan, Politics, 3/21/2000 - Sudanese army repels rebel attack Sudan, Politics, 3/20/2000