Sudanese opposition leader to visit Uganda, Kenya to discuss NDA’s role in peace process
KHARTOUM, March 13, 2004 (Sudan Tribune) — The chairman of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, is expected to arrive in Uganda capital, Kampala, today coming from Cairo, The Khartoum based Al-Ayam said.
Al Mirghani is making this visit in response to invitation by the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, to discuss peace process and democratic change in Sudan.
He will discuss with President Museveni about the peace talks, the role required to be played in the post-war period, and means of strengthening unity and democratic change.
The chairman will thereafter, on Monday 15 March, head for Naivasha to meet the first vice-president, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Dr John Garang, and IGAD mediators in promoting the negotiations and seeking ways of making the NDA join the peace talks on power-sharing, as well as the freezing of the Jedda agreement signed between the NDA and the government.
The government and the umbrella National Democratic Alliance (NDA) signed an accord in Jeddah December 4, supporting existing peace negotiations with southern rebels and calling for a new democratic Sudan benefiting all political parties.
Sudanese government decided to suspend contacts with the NDA at the of February for admitting rebels fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region into its ranks.
The NDA is composed of key northern opposition groups as well as the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).