17/12/1999 The Indian Ocean Newsletter N°884

SUDAN

AT DAGGERS DRAWN

Ten years after they arrived in power in Khartoum, head of state general Omar Hassan Al Bachir and his former mentor Hassan Al Turabi are facing each other in a struggle for power which could end up any way. To prevent Parliament, where Al Turabi is Speaker, adopting two constitutional amendments (election of provincial governors and a prime minister responsible to Parliament) which he disagreed with, the president simply dissolved the chamber on December 13, the day before MPs were due to vote (ION 880). (...)   [688 words]   [€8]
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