Sudan: Ex-rebel summons three ministers over party crisis

Sudan: Ex-rebel summons three ministers over party crisis
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23 November 2007
12:05 pm GMT
BBC Monitoring Middle East
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Text of report by private Sudanese newspaper Al-Ra’y al-Amm on 23 November

The [former rebel] Sudan People’s Liberation Movement [SPLM] yesterday summoned the proposed minister of cabinet affairs, Dr Lam Akol, the nominee for state minister of justice, Telar Deng, and the former state minister of interior, Alieu Ayang.

Al-Ra’y al-Amm learnt that the three were summoned for questioning over statements they made during the current [SPLM] crisis with the [ruling] National Congress Party.

SPLM sources said these statements did not represent the movement’s position. Akol, Deng and Ayang arrived in Juba yesterday.