Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 10/27/2003
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of October 27, 2003
- Sudan: merging the southern rebels with a split group
The Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) and Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) ( the united group) -- a group split since 1991 and works in the upper Nile area in the central west, announced yesterday merging with the government in the course of the efforts to expand the peace process in Sudan. Sudan, Politics, 11/1/2003 - Syrian clergy confers with Sudanese official
Patriarch of Antioch and all the East for Assyrian Orthodox, Zakka I Iwas, received on Friday a Sudanese delegation headed by Chairman of the Southern States Coordination Council, Rick Fay Cook. Syria-Sudan, Religion, 11/1/2003 - Syria - Sudan Red Crescent societies signed agreement Sudan-Syria, Local, 11/1/2003
- Turabi meets with Garang shortly
The US President George W Bush has extended on Wednesday evening for one year the sanctions imposed on Sudan since 1997. Sudan-USA, Politics, 10/31/2003 - Khartoum resumes negotiations with Darfour rebels
Sources said that a Sudanese governmental delegation started negotiations on Tuesday in Chad with rebels of the Sudan's liberation movement in Darfour area to the west of Sudan. Sudan, Politics, 10/30/2003 - Al-Assad meets Sudanese delegation
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad receiveda delegation representing the coordinating council of the southern states in Sudan headed by Chairman of the Council Riak Cook on bilateral relations and regarding the ongoing negotiations for a peace in south of Sudan. Syria-Sudan, Politics, 10/30/2003 - Twenty Sudanese military men killed in a military helicopter crash
Twenty Sudanese military men were killed including 11 army officers in a military helicopter crash in Um Sayyalah area to the north of Kurdovan. Sudan, Local, 10/30/2003 - Powell says an opportunity for peace in Sudan must not be lost
Powell: Today we stand on the brink of an agreement to end Sudan's cruel civil war and bring one of the greatest and longest-running humanitarian tragedies in the world to an end. Sudan-USA, Politics, 10/29/2003 - Bishop Battica confers with Sudanese Delegation Syria-Sudan, Politics, 10/29/2003
- Al-Jazeera: Rebels deny Washington's intervention to suspend Sudan's talks
The spokesman for souther rebels in Sudan has denied any American intervention that resulted in suspending peace negotiations with the government. He said that dialogue is taking place directly between the Sudanese. Sudan-USA, Politics, 10/29/2003 - AI-Ahram: Bashir wants Egypt's presence in Sudan
Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir said that his country wants an Egyptian role and presence from now on and during the stage after the peace agreement is signed. Sudan-Egypt, Politics, 10/28/2003 - Norway proposes conference for Sudan's peace efforts
Norway intends to host a conference for donor states to Sudan after the government and the rebels have reach a final peace agreement by the end of the year. Sudan-Norway, Politics, 10/28/2003 - Sudanese peace talks to resume after Ramadan
The Kenyan mediator Lazaraos Simbayo announced yesterday that the peace talks which are being held in Nivasha between the Sudanese (first) vice president Ali Othman Taha and the leader of the southern rebels John Garang were postponed until November 30th because of the fall of the holly month of Ramadan. Sudan, Politics, 10/27/2003