Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 9/9/2002
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of September 9, 2002
- Khartoum: No negotiations before ceasefire
A Sudanese official stressed that his government will not return back to negotiations with the rebels in the south under the leadership of John Garang unless ceasefire operations are observed and there a minimum of a stop in hostilities between the two sides. Sudan, Politics, 9/13/2002 - Sudan: Three persons killed in military plane collision with a truck
A Sudanese military official said on Thursday that three persons were killed on Wednesday when a military plane collided with a small truck near Rabek, which is 275 Km to the south of the capital, Khartoum. Sudan, Local, 9/13/2002 - Switzerland proposes promoting cease- fire in Nouba mountains
Switzerland proposed to the Sudanese government and the southern rebels to develop the cease fire agreement between the two sides in al-Nouba mountain, to the southern center of Sudan, into a comprehensive peace. Sudan-Switzerland, Politics, 9/12/2002 - Khartoum vows to impose peace, commends Libyan- Egyptian initiative
The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir vowed "to impose" peace in Sudan, while his advisor Sayed Qotub al-Mahdi commended the Libyan- Egyptian initiative which seemed to have been canceled by the Mashakos negotiations. Sudan, Politics, 9/11/2002 - Sudanese messages to Qathafi, crown prince Abdullah Sudan-Libya, Politics, 9/10/2002
- Khartoum attacks diplomatically and militarily over Tourit battle
It seemed on Monday that the Sudanese government is about to start Tourist battle which was occupied by the southern Sudanese rebels on September 1st, while the Mashakos negotiations were underway. Sudan, Politics, 9/10/2002 - Othman meets al-Assad about Sudan's conditions
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday in Damascus received the Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael. Syria-Sudan, Politics, 9/9/2002 - Sudan rejects American pressures
The Sudanese government announced its rejection to any pressures practiced on it by the USA or other sides to complete the peace negotiations with the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement. It indicated that the military cooperation between Sudan and Uganda resulted in negative reflections in the south. Sudan-USA, Politics, 9/9/2002