Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 6/14/2004
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of June 14, 2004
- Sudanese Minister: Road to Egypt to be completed in 22 months
Work on a road linking Port Sudan and South Egypt's Aswan will be completed in 22 months, Sudanese Roads Minister Mohamed Tahir Ailla said Friday. Sudan-Egypt, Economics, 6/19/2004 - Darfour: thousands of children suffer the war
The UN World and Food program announced that thousands of the Sudanese children suffer malnutrition in Darfour districts where continued violence and other obstacles cause the delay of the arrival of urgent food supplies for the hungry people. Sudan, Politics, 6/19/2004 - Sudan accuses Eritrea of obstructing peace in the south
Sudan has accused its neighbor Eritrea yesterday of attempting to undermine an agreement to end the civil war in southern Sudan, and called on the UN Security Council to put an end to what is being carried out by Asmara to this effect. Sudan-Eritrea, Politics, 6/19/2004 - Egyptian-Sudanese company to develop River Nile course Egypt-Sudan, Economics, 6/19/2004
- Sudanese inter-peace talks resumed on Friday
The secretary of the Sudanese foreign ministry Mutarraf Siddiq said yesterday that the negotiations between the government and the people's movement for the liberation of Sudan led by John Garang will be resumed on June 25 and will continue until July 19. Sudan, Politics, 6/18/2004 - UNICEF is racing with Autumn to rescue the people of Darfour
The United Nations Children Organization UNICEF has warned against a humanitarian crisis with the beginning of the rainfall season in Darfour area to the west of Sudan which has been witnessing tension since one year. Sudan, Politics, 6/17/2004 - Sudanese Parliament approves four freedoms agreement with Egypt Sudan-Egypt, Politics, 6/16/2004
- Sudanese official: the peace agreement will not break the Salvation Movement
Member of the leading commission of the ruling National Congress party in Sudan, Ghazli Salah Eddin, said that the negative aspects in the peace agreement which was signed between the Sudanese government and the southern rebels should be taken into account at its actual implementation. He added that implementing the agreement should lead to eliminating shortcomings made by the negotiators, noting that the next phase is more critical than the phase of the agreement itself. Sudan, Politics, 6/16/2004 - Washington accuses Khartoum of obstructing Darfour relief aid
The US on Monday accused Sudan of obstructing the humanitarian efforts in Darfour area to the western part of the country which lives a humanitarian crisis because of the tension overwhelming it since more than one year. Sudan-USA, Politics, 6/15/2004 - Al-Ahram : Taha: Sudan's final peace agreement to be signed next August
Sudanese First Vice President Ali Othman Taha said that the peace deal between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) would be finally signed in August in Nairobi, Kenya. Sudan, Politics, 6/14/2004 - Turabi was intending to quit his party's leadership; Southern Sudan printed its own currency
The leader of the people's army for the liberation of Sudan, John Garang, announced that Southern Sudan, which has become closer to peace more than any time before, will shortly embark on a new currency in the context of the vast self- rule which will be declared in it for 6 years when peace is approved. Sudan, Politics, 6/14/2004 - Alexandria University branch to be established in Sudan Egypt-Sudan, Education, 6/14/2004