Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 9/12/2005
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of September 12, 2005
- Bashir in Egypt
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak receives Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir who was due in Alexandria Saturday on a one-day visit to congratulate President Mubarak on his victory in the recent presidential elections. Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 9/17/2005 - Meirghani splits from Sudanese opposition coalition
At a time when special meetings of the commission of the democratic national coalition leadership in Cairo continued since last Tuesday in order to finalize a formula over participation of the coalition in the national unity government, the coalition was surprised by an unexpected step taken by its chairman and leader of the democratic federal party Muhammad Othman al-Meirghani. Sudan, Politics, 9/17/2005 - Differences between government, People's Movement over energy ministry
The leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and first Vice President, Sylva Kiir, said that the difference over the ministry of energy is still delaying the formation of the Sudanese interim government. Sudan, Politics, 9/16/2005 - Darfur rebels claim government attacked them
Darfur's rebels announced that the Sudanese government forces killed ten of its members and at least other ten of its members were injured in continued clashes along the three past days. Sudan, Politics, 9/14/2005 - Fuel shortage slashes UN food airdrops to hungry in southern Sudan
A crippling shortage of jet fuel has slashed the airlifting and airdropping of food aid in southern Sudan at the height of the annual hunger season, cutting deliveries by half at the worst time of the year, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) reported today. Sudan-UN, Economics, 9/13/2005