AU envoy to arrive in Khartoum 30 August

Excerpt from report by Sudanese independent Al-Mashahir (Almshaheer) website, BBC Monitoring Middle East.

Aug 30, 2005 (Khartoum) — The AU envoy and chief mediator for the Darfur peace talks, Salim Ahmed Salim, and the head of AU mediators, Sam Ibok, will today arrive in Khartoum.

The team will visit Darfur states and meet First Vice-President Salva Kiir, Second Vice-President Ali Uthman Muhammad Taha, Foreign Minister Mustafa Uthman Isma’il and Minister of Agriculture Majdhub Al-Khalifah to discuss the situation in Darfur and ways to give impetus to the forthcoming Abuja talks. [Passage omitted]