Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 8/20/2001
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of August 20, 2001
- Sudanese authorities foiled explosion attempt by rebels
A statement by the Sudanese ministry of the Interior on Friday announced that Sudan has foiled an attempt made by the rebels to blow off an oil pipeline in the eastern part of the country. Sudan, Politics, 8/25/2001 - Some 80% of the Sudanese- Egyptian file is re-arranged
The Egyptian ambassador in Khartoum Muhammad Asem said that more than 80% of the issues opened in the context of the Sudanese- Egyptian relations file have been re-arranged and put into the right path. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 8/24/2001 - Nile's Water level highly increased
The Sudanese ministry of irrigation has warned that levels of waters of the Nile river to the north of Atbara, Marwa and Danqala area will increase during the two coming days the height level reached since 1988 and 1994. Sudan, Local, 8/23/2001 - Heavy floods after drought jeopardize food security in Sudan, UN agency warns
Extensive floods following two consecutive years of serious drought in northern Sudan have displaced tens of thousands of people, destroyed crops and aggravated the area's already precarious food supply situation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned. Sudan, Local, 8/23/2001 - Sudanese opposition figures arrested Sudan, Politics, 8/22/2001
- Libyan- Sudanese round of talks
The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has stressed that the world partnership dialogue summit which concluded its works in Kampala on Monday was an opportunity to maintain an open and fruitful dialogue among the African states on several issues especially economic issues and means of creating a creative and just participation through which benefits will be exchanged in a way that there will be no loosing side. Sudan-Libya, Politics, 8/22/2001 - Maher meets with Sudanese foreign minister
Emerging from the meeting, Maher said that the visit to Egypt by the Sudanese Foreign Minister was a chance to discuss in detail relations between the two countries and coordination in light of the decision made by President Hosni Mubarak and Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir to form the Egyptian-Sudanese follow-up committee. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 8/21/2001 - Sudanese rebels held two government's fishing ships
"Salma" company for investment working in the area of fishing said on Monday that the rebel movement in South Sudan confiscated two fishing boats and held nine of its members while carrying out fishing in " Nou" lake in the area of the Higher Nile. Sudan, Politics, 8/21/2001 - Health cooperation between Syria, Sudan
The Syrian minister of health Muhammad Eyad al-Shatti on Sunday in Damascus discussed with his Sudanese counterpart Ahmad Bilal Othman in their meeting, which was attended by the deputy health minister Kawkab al-Dayeh and the Sudanese ambassador in Damascus fields of existing cooperation between the two ministries and means of revitalizing the executive program of the cooperation agreement signed in the field of health between the two countries. Syria-Sudan, Politics, 8/20/2001