Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 8/26/2002
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of August 26, 2002
- Fate of al-Turabi, as weapons, documents are found with Sudan's People Congress party
News reports have been contradictory concerning the fate of the opposition leader of the People's Congress Party Hassan al-Turabi. Sudan, Politics, 8/31/2002 - Al-Rai al-Am: Libya wants projects in South Sudan to off cessation
The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has announced that Libya’s Leader of the Revolution Colonel Muammar al Qathafi called on investment sides in his country to establish development projects in southern Sudan to ward off the ghost of cessation between the two parts of Sudan. Sudan-Libya, Politics, 8/30/2002 - Al-Bashir arrests al-Turabi party leadership
The Sudanese government yesterday launched a vast detention campaign in the lines of the leaderships of the People's National Congress party led by Hassan al-Turabi that targeted 26 of them, in a step justified by the authorities for attacks made against university students, while later investigations showed that al-Turabi's party was planning for "acts of damages in a order to create a state of disorder in order to obstruct the peace process" between Khartoum and the rebels in the south. Sudan, Politics, 8/29/2002 - AL chief: Mashakos agreement not a danger to Arab national security Sudan-Regional, Politics, 8/29/2002
- Wounded, killings, in Western Sudan Sudan, Local, 8/29/2002
- Religion is the most sensitive issue in Sudan
The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir stressed on Tuesday that the initial peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the southern rebels guarantees the role of the Islamic Sharia in the country. Sudan, Politics, 8/28/2002 - Libyan, Sudanese, Ugandan meeting
A meeting was held on Saturday evening in Tripoli included the secretary of the Libyan people's committee for African unity Ali Abdul Salaam al-Tureiki, the Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman and Uganda's foreign minister James Wabaka. Libya-Sudan, Politics, 8/26/2002 - Al-Rai al-Am: Contacts between Khartoum, Asmara
The advisor for the Sudanese president for political affairs Qutbi al-Mahdi has stated that contacts were made between Khartoum and Asmara during the past days in order to revitalize the special agreement relating to the security committees meeting between the two countries. Sudan-Eritrea, Politics, 8/26/2002