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NCP-SPLM meet in Cairo to discuss Sudan’s unity and Islamic Sharia’a laws

August 1, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Delegates from Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) will meet in Cairo on Monday to discuss a number of referendum issues and ways to make unity attractive.

FILE - Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) secretary general Pagan Amum (R) and Nafie Ali Nafie, presidential advisor and member of the northern ruling National Congress Party, address a news conference in the capital Khartoum December 13, 2009 (Reuters)
FILE – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) secretary general Pagan Amum (R) and Nafie Ali Nafie, presidential advisor and member of the northern ruling National Congress Party, address a news conference in the capital Khartoum December 13, 2009 (Reuters)
This is the second meeting of its kind hosted by Egypt which is seeking a formula that will enable its Southern neighbour to stay united for fears over reallocation of Nile waters and regional instability.

The NCP delegation will be headed by Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie and SPLM by its secretary General Pagan Amum.

The minister for cabinet affairs Luka Byong told the London based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper that he expects Cairo to present proposals that will discuss movement, ownership, employment and residency for citizens of North and South should the latter decide to secede.

Furthermore, Byong said that the issue of Nile water agreements and the South’s share would be discussed.

SPLM sources told the newspaper that they will reiterate their previous demands that a “voluntary unity” will come only in return for abrogating the Islamic Sharia’a laws in the country, something which the NCP has staunchly rejected in the past.

Sudan’s oil-producing south secured its own semi-autonomous government, and the referendum on whether it should split off as a separate country, in a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war with the north.

It is widely expected that the Southerners will pick secession.

(ST)

5 Comments

  • Dinka Boy
    Dinka Boy

    NCP-SPLM meet in Cairo to discuss Sudan’s unity and Islamic Sharia’a laws
    Sudan’s unity + Sharia laws= nothing/waste of time.
    Thanks

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  • thokpiny de Deng de Thokpiny
    thokpiny de Deng de Thokpiny

    NCP-SPLM meet in Cairo to discuss Sudan’s unity and Islamic Sharia’a laws
    These talks are waste of time because the NCP is a party who want to doom the South

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  • AUGUSTINO DENG
    AUGUSTINO DENG

    NCP-SPLM meet in Cairo to discuss Sudan’s unity and Islamic Sharia’a laws
    Islamic Sharia’s laws or macaroni laws has to go to heil.

    By Augustino Deng

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  • Awumtiai
    Awumtiai

    NCP-SPLM meet in Cairo to discuss Sudan’s unity and Islamic Sharia’a laws
    I think these two words are not meant for Pagan Mum: 1: Political prostitution 2: Money lover. Nah, Gatwech, you have attacked your godfather inadvertently. These qualities are not inline with person who devoted his whole live for the cause of Southerners. Political easygoing and money followers are………………. You definitely know who I mean here. Don’t you?

    Awumtiaidit

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