Arabic News Weekly Edition for Sudan, 9/19/2005
Weekly Edition, Sudan - Week of September 19, 2005
- New Sudanese government takes oath
The new Sudanese government on Thursday took its constitutional oath before President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in the presence of his two deputies Sylva Kiir and Ali Othman Taha. Sudan, Politics, 9/23/2005 - Bush congratulates Bashir on new government
The Sudan's liberation Front, the largest rebel group in Darfur, stressed in a statement that it killed 80 soldiers of the government forces during two days of fighting around Shuurieh city and Khazzan Jedid area south of Darfur. Sudan-USA, Politics, 9/23/2005 - Despite serious risks, political progress in Sudan, UN envoy
Despite the resurgence of insecurity in Darfur and south Sudan, new tensions in Khartoum and other threats, political progress is on track on the main fronts of conflict in Sudan, the top envoy of the United Nations to the country said yesterday. Sudan-UN, Politics, 9/22/2005 - First national unity government in Sudan
The leading council of the ruling National Congress Party in Sudan has announced the completion of the formation of the national unity government which is shared by the Sudan People's Liberation movement (SPLM) for the with the National Democratic Alliance (Muhammad Othman al-Meirghani, chairman) and certain other political forces. Sudan, Politics, 9/21/2005 - al-Rai al-Aam: Sudanese official warns against schemes targeting Syria Sudan-Syria, Politics, 9/21/2005
- Bashir: interim government shortly in Sudan
The Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bshir stressed the nearby formation of an interim government which he said will be of the largest number of political parties in the history of Sudan, but excluding the Umma, the People's Congress Party and the Communist Party. Sudan, Politics, 9/19/2005 - Sudanese inter-opposition differences
The announcement made by the democratic federal party led by Muhammad Othman al-Meirghani that he had signed an agreement in the government of Khartoum ruling Congress Party on participating in the new interim Sudanese government raised negative reactions in the Sudanese opposition. Sudan, Politics, 9/19/2005