Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 10/9/2000
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of October 9, 2000
- Two Sudanese aid planes for Iraq Iraq-Sudan, Politics, 10/14/2000
- 8500 Sudanese want to come back from Libya
The number of the Sudanese seeking to return home from Libya has increased following the bloody events in Zawia village. Their numbers reached 8500 persons. The authorities began to expatriate them by land and air to Khartoum and other cities when they assembled in special camps in Libya fearing from being assaulted. Sudan-Libya, Politics, 10/13/2000 - Torabi's party accuses the government of planning to dissolve it
Leaders of the opposition Sudanese public national conference party warned that the government is about to dissolve the party which comprises former allies of the regime, assuring that the party headed by Hassan El-Torabi will be forced to take its activity to the underground, emphasizing on that the party does not take its legitimacy from the government. Sudan, Politics, 10/13/2000 - Meirghani calls coalition leadership to meet October 20 in Asmara Sudan-Eritrea, Politics, 10/13/2000
- Another 255 Sudanese flee from Libya
A new shift of Sudanese workers arrived on Wednesday in al-Khartoum fleeing acts of violence imposed on the Africans in Libya since one month. Libya-Sudan, Politics, 10/12/2000 - U.S pressure keeps Sudan off UN Security Council
The Sudanese government criticized the role played by the U.S.A for keeping it from winning a seat in the UN Security Council despite of the support it has from the African group. Sudan, Politics, 10/12/2000 - Sudan's first year of petroleum export
Sudan ended in August its first year of exporting raw petroleum produced by Sudanese, Canadian, Malaysian and Chinese companies. Sudan, Economics, 10/11/2000 - The Sudanese president and the reconciliation forum
Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir has stressed his government's care to convene the preliminary forum for reconciliation in Sudan at its set date on October 16 in Cairo and to avail full freedom and ensuring the right of self - expression for all participants in this forum. Sudan, Politics, 10/11/2000 - Confrontations in Sudan against the government
Four Sudanese policemen were hit by bullets in confrontation with students at Sudan's university on Sunday, two are seriously wounded. Sudan, Politics, 10/10/2000 - Some 96 Sudanese fled from Libya
The paper quoted eye-witnesses that so many Sudanese were " killed or expelled" following confrontation with Libyans in al-Zaweyah and al-Zahra towns in the West and that complete families resorted to the Sudanese embassy in Tripoli or to Libyan camps. Libya-Sudan, Politics, 10/9/2000