Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 4/3/2000
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of April 3, 2000
- Establishing joint navigation company between Syria and Sudan Sudan-Syria, Economics, 4/6/2000
- El-Bashir: Removing all obstacles confronting the relations with Egypt Sudan-Egypt, Politics, 4/6/2000
- Egyptian - Sudanese ministerial committee convene next month
The ministerial Sudanese - Egyptian committee decided convening in coming May to vitalize the bilateral relations between the two states. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 4/6/2000 - WFP aid for Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees in Sudan
The World Food Program (WFP) has earmarked $15 million in food aid for Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees living in Sudan, according to a memorandum of understanding signed between Sudan and the program Tuesday. Sudan-Regional-UN, Economics, 4/6/2000 - Sudan refuses normalization with Israel unless being in an Arab decision Sudan, Politics, 4/5/2000
- El-Bashir meets with Merghani in Cairo
Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir met yesterday with Ahmed El-Merghani, the former chairman of the Sudanese State Council, in the headquarters of the Sudanese embassy in Cairo at Merghani's request. Sudan, Politics, 4/5/2000 - Al-Mahdi did not return to Khartoum
Sources at the opposition Sudanese Ummah party said on Tuesday that a high ranking delegation of members of the party will head this week to Khartoum. Sudan, Politics, 4/5/2000 - Severe dissent inside the Sudan People's Liberation Army, sources
Informed Sudanese sources stated yesterday that there was armed dissension among troops of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, clarifying that the group was divided into three groups-- one of which joined the governmental forces. Sudan, Politics, 4/5/2000 - Sudanese FM: I do not exclude forming transitional government with Ummah Party
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael said he does not exclude the possibility of forming a transitional government with the Sudanese Ummah Party for the state's stability and to save the revolution to push forward efforts for a peaceful exchange of power Sudan, Politics, 4/4/2000 - Sudanese - Egyptian summit on margin of the European - African summit Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 4/3/2000
- Human rights protection in Sudan
An official at the Sudanese Foreign Ministry said the Sudanese government agreed to appoint a human rights consultant at the UN for one year. Sudan-UN, Politics, 4/3/2000 - Wolves plague sheep breeders in Sudan's Mahas land
Horrified by attacks from wolves and left mainly to fend for themselves by the authorities, the inhabitants of Mahas land in the extreme north of Sudan on the Egyptian border, have resorted to sharing their bedrooms with their sheep for fear of losing them to the wild animals. Sudan, Culture, 4/3/2000