Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 2/26/2001
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of February 26, 2001
- Preparations for the Sudanese dialogue forum
It was agreed in Cairo that the Egyptian- Libyan initiative committee has called for convening a national dialogue forum on national reconciliation in March. Sudan-Egypt, Politics, 3/2/2001 - Al-Assad is expected to visit Sudan
Sudan's foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael said that his country is continuously making contacts with the Arab states and that it expects President Bashar al-Assad to visit Sudan. Sudan-Syria, Politics, 3/1/2001 - Indonesian president arrived in Khartoum Sudan-Indonesia, Politics, 3/1/2001
- 2,500 demobilized child soldiers out of Sudan combat zone
In the largest effort of its kind ever undertaken in southern Sudan, the United Nations Children's Fund announced that "it had airlifted more than 2,500 child combatants out of conflict zones and into safe areas where a rehabilitation and family tracing process can begin," Sudan, Politics, 3/1/2001 - Moussa talks with Mahdi on reconciliation in Sudan
Egypt's Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said his 60-minute talks with Sudanese Ummah Party Leader Sadek Al-Mahdi Tuesday came within the context of constant contacts with the various parties in the Sudanese equation. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 2/28/2001 - Sudanese detainees released
The Sudanese minister of the Interior lt. Gen. Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hussein has announced that most of those who were held from the People's Congress party which is led by Hassan al-Turabi were released in al-Khartoum and other Sudanese provinces. Sudan, Politics, 2/28/2001 - Rebels flee from South Sudan
Some 490 members of the rebellions forces in Southern Sudan have fled and returned back from al-Nouba mountains to Taloudi province in the Sudanese Southern Kardvan province. Sudan, Politics, 2/28/2001 - Sudan: al-Turabi's detention is a political measure
The Sudanese ministry of justice on Saturday described the detention of the secretary general of the people's congress party Hassan al-Turabi, together with several members of his party's leadership as a political measure that has no connection to the investigations made with them. Sudan, Politics, 2/26/2001 - Al-Turabi was visited in prison Sudan, Politics, 2/26/2001