Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 4/11/2005
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of April 11, 2005
- Zoellick meets with Garang, visits Darfur
US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick met with the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM/SPLA) John Garang in the course of a tour carried out by the American official in Sudan. Sudan-USA, Politics, 4/16/2005 - Sudanese opposition welcomes taking part in the drafting of the constitution
News reports in Khartoum said that the Sudanese government and the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) have made concessions concerning the percentages stated in the peace agreement between the government and the movement in order to represent the Sudanese political forces, which welcomed that, in the committee to drafting the interim constitution. Sudan, Politics, 4/14/2005 - US links aid to Sudan to end of brutal acts Sudan-USA, Politics, 4/14/2005
- Turabi's health deteriorating
Sources close to the leader of the Sudanese People's Congress party, Hassan al-Turabi, who has been detained by the authorities since one year, said he was taken to a doctor to receive medical treatment for his ears and that his family knew nothing about it. Sudan, Politics, 4/13/2005 - After Annan's call for generosity, donors pledges $4.5 billion for Sudan
A two-day donors' conference to support the peace accord between the Government and rebels in southern Sudan has pledged $4.5 billion for 2005-2007, nearly $2 billion more than the amount United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified as needed to resurrect the ravaged region over the next two and a half years. Sudan-UN, Politics, 4/13/2005 - At donors' conference for south Sudan, Annan appeals for $2.6 billion for peace
Convening to put financial backbone in an accord ending two decades of war in southern Sudan, yet meeting under the shadow of ongoing conflict in the country's western Darfur region, an international donors' conference opened yesterday with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealing for $2.6 billion to fan the flames of peace. Sudan-UN, Politics, 4/12/2005 - Attempts to bridge between the Sudanese government and Turabi's party Sudan, Politics, 4/11/2005
- Al-Bashir: Darfur issue is tribal issue Sudan-UN, Politics, 4/11/2005