Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 12/11/2000
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of December 11, 2000
- Sudanese opposition challenge government opportunism to amend laws
In a statements issued by the Sudanese daily Alwan on Friday, the People's Congress said that "the government has used the incident of al-Jarrafah mosque in Um Durman and amended the national security law so as to detain for a period of three months, noting that this amendment came from a system which does not have the right to do so at the absence of the national council." Sudan, Politics, 12/16/2000 - Elections in Sudan
Friday was the third day in the elections in Sudan for the Presidency and the national council, amid an increasing turnout from citizens on the voting ballots in the centers which are deployed in 23 Sudanese provinces out of 26. Sudan, Politics, 12/16/2000 - Sudan detains more members of al-Takfir, al-Hijra group Sudan, Politics, 12/16/2000
- On the Sudanese parliamentary and presidential elections
Voting operation started on Wednesday in Sudan to choose a new President and members of the national council whose member tolled 360 of various social, vocational and women strata to fill the constitutional vacuum which lasted for over one year. Sudan, Politics, 12/15/2000 - Al-Turabi renewed criticism on the Presidential, parliamentary elections
The leader of the Sudanese People's Conference Hassan al-Turabi on Wednesday renewed his criticism on the Presidential and parliamentary elections which had started on Wednesday. Sudan, Politics, 12/14/2000 - Sudanese minister resigns because Sudan wastes its resources
Sudanese minister of state at the ministry of road and communications Taaban Dinq has announced his resignation from his post in protest that the Sudanese government did not implement the al-Khartoum agreement concerning peace. Sudan, Politics, 12/14/2000 - Sudan, Britain and the US
The British ambassador in al-Khartoum Richard Macbeth has stressed that his country continued dialogue with the American administration to narrow the gap between the US and Sudan. Sudan-USA, Politics, 12/14/2000 - Presidential elections started today in Sudan Sudan, Politics, 12/13/2000
- Sudanese security barriers in Khartoum; amends security laws
The Sudanese police and security forces started since Sunday redeployment campaigns and large scale inspection campaign in al-Khartoum province especially during night times. On foot patrols and barriers were deployed on crossroads and the main highways leading and coming from the capital. Sudan, Politics, 12/12/2000 - Garang plans destruction acts in Sudan
Well-informed source in Khartoum disclosed that the rebellion movement led by John Garang has drawn a plan to destroy the infrastructure in certain Sudanese cities and to assassinate constitutional, political and prominent figures in Sudan. Sudan, Politics, 12/12/2000