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| Sudans president invites opposition for talks |
| 2009-10-06 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on Monday invited the country's opposition for talks aimed at avoiding clashes in next year's general election, a week after they threatened to boycott it. "We wish to have general elections without violence. I invite all the parties to a dialogue... in order to reach a positive climate to hold elections," Bashir told parliament. Africa's largest country is to hold presidential, parliamentary and local elections in April 2010, its first general election since 1986. After Bashir's coup in 1989, subsequent votes were slammed as a sham by the country's opposition. Southern former rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), who now share a unity government with Bashir's National Congress Party, joined other opposition parties last week in threatening to boycott elections if the laws guaranteeing basic freedoms are not passed by Nov. 30. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Make sure it's outside in the middle of a large, mowed field, and bring your own food and drink. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-06 14:35 |