Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 4/10/2000
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of April 10, 2000
- OPEC international development fund grants loan to Sudan
The International Development Fund of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC granted Sudan a $10 million loan to develop its electricity network. Sudan, Economics, 4/14/2000 - Confiscating properties of three opposition personalities in Sudan Sudan, Politics, 4/13/2000
- Sudanese- Egyptian businessmen council established
Several Sudanese and Egyptian businessmen have decided to launch the first council for businessmen in the two countries in order to serve development objectives in Sudan. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 4/13/2000 - Sudanese opposition party to elect its political bureau members
Sources from the Sudanese opposition Ummah Party stressed this party started measures to establish a new political bureau composed of 50 members in order to lead the party's work in the coming phase. Sudan, Politics, 4/13/2000 - Sudan's oil output up 56 percent to 200,000 barrels
Sudan's oil output has jumped 56 % from 128,000 daily to 200,000 barrels per day, largely from the addition of new productive wells of the Unity and Heglig oil fields in the South and West of the country, respectively. Sudan, Economics, 4/13/2000 - Abd El-Maguid receives a message from the Sudanese foreign minister
Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid received a written message from Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael, which efforts by Abdul Meguid and the AL to defend Sudan's unity and support it in confronting foreign schemes conspiring against its stability and regional safety, especially its stance toward Canada and its call for raising the Sudanese issue in the United Nations Security Council. Sudan-Regional-Canada, Politics, 4/12/2000 - New Egyptian ambassador to Sudan very soon
Egyptian diplomatic sources said that Egyptian ambassador Muhammad Asem will head for Khartoum at the end of this week to assume his post of office as the first ambassador from his country to Sudan in six years after he was appointed by his government to this post two months ago. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 4/12/2000 - El-Sadek El-Mahdi to meet with US ambassador in Cairo on Sunday
Former Sudanese Prime Minister El-Sadek El-Mahdi, head of the opposition Ummah Party, is due to meet with the US ambassador in Cairo, Daniel Kurtzer, on Sunday. Sudan-International, Politics, 4/12/2000 - Sudanese government agrees on draft law to combat terrorism
The Sudanese Cabinet agreed on a draft law for combating terrorism that was presented by Minister of Interior Abd El-Rehim Mohammed Hussein. Sudan, Politics, 4/12/2000 - Pending issues between Egypt and Sudan to be discussed in supreme committee meetings in May Sudan, Politics, 4/10/2000