Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 4/16/2001
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of April 16, 2001
- Sudan voices commitment to implement agreements on protecting relief operations
The spokesman for the Sudanese armed forces lt. Gen. Muhammad Bashir Suleiman has stressed that Sudan is committed to the implementation of all agreements it signed concerning the protection of relief operations in the southern parts of the country. Sudan, Politics, 4/21/2001 - Southern Sudan's rebels announce seizing five areas on the Blue Nile
The rebels of Southern Sudan in the "People's Army for the Liberation of Sudan" said that they had seized on Wednesday several areas in the province of the Blue Nile ( al-Nile al-Azraq) to the East of the country after they had inflicted great damage on the government's forces. Sudan, Politics, 4/20/2001 - Saudi crown prince speaks on the telephone with al-Bashir Saudi Arabia-Sudan, Politics, 4/19/2001
- Sudan ready to launch satellite Sudan, Economics, 4/18/2001
- Khartoum stresses talks with Washington
The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has stressed that the meeting which was held in Doha between Sudanese delegates and members at the US Senate was fruitful and encouraging. He admitted that al-Khartoum asked Qatar to mediate with Washington in order to normalize Sudanese- American relations. Sudan-USA, Politics, 4/16/2001