Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 5/5/2003
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of May 5, 2003
- Inter- Sudanese peace talks resumed on Saturday in Kenya
The inter governmental commission for development "IGAD" yesterday announced that the Sudanese government and the southern rebels will start today the fifth round of peace talks which aim at ending decades of civil war in Sudan. Sudan, Politics, 5/10/2003 - Bashir fires officials in areas exposed to rebel attacks in Darfour
The Sudanese governmental TV said that Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir made major changes in the local governments in Darfour,in west Sudan, as a result of what relates to the attacks recently launched by the rebels against that area. Sudan, Politics, 5/10/2003 - AL delegation visits Garang; Khartoum renews accusation to Israel of supporting its rebels
A delegation representing the Arab League held talks with the leaders of the rebel movement in southern Sudan for the first time since 1953, while the spokesman for the Sudanese forces Lt. Gen. Muhammad Bashir Suleiman renewed accusations against Israel of supporting the southern rebels led by John Garang. Sudan-Regional, Politics, 5/9/2003 - Sudan: resumption of peace negotiations in Mashakos
The Sudanese government and the rebels in of southern Sudan were due to have resumed peace negotiations in Kenya, at a time when the rebels denied providing any help to the rebels of Darfour ( Northern West). Sudan, Politics, 5/8/2003 - Libyan- Sudanese follow up committee Libya-Sudan, Politics, 5/5/2003
- On the Sudanese president's visit to Libya
The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has stressed that the talks held by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with Libya's Leader of the Revolution Colonel Muammar al Qathafi on Saturday dealt with bilateral relations, the march of peace in Sudan, the situation on the Arab arena, especially in Iraq and Palestine and means and ways of improving the current Arab conditions. Sudan-Libya, Politics, 5/5/2003 - Mubarak's Khartoum visit 'injected new blood in integration agreements'
President Hosni Mubarak's ground breaking visit to Sudan, the first in more than 12 years, was historic. It injected new blood in integration agreements between Egypt and Sudan. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 5/5/2003