Mubarak, Qaddafi to visit Sudan for talks with Al-Bashir after Obama letters
December 19, 2010 (NAIROBI) – Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and the Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qaddafi will both arrive in Khartoum on Tuesday for talks with Sudan president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir as his country hurtles towards a vote in January 2011 on the independence of south Sudan region.
The high-profile visit comes as the semi-autonomous region of South Sudan prepares to seize a historic opportunity to gain full independence from the north when its citizens go to the polls on January 9, 2011.
The highly sensitive plebiscite is a key plank of a 2005’s peace deal that ended decades of civil war between the mainly Muslim north Sudan and the south where most people follow Christianity or traditional beliefs.
Al-Qaddafi and Mubarak’s visit also follows news reported on Sunday that U.S President Barack Obama had recently sent letters to a number of regional leaders underscoring his administration’s increasing focus on Sudan’s referendum and the situation in Darfur region.
Darfur region in western Sudan has been the scene of an armed conflict since 2003 when rebels belonging mostly to African ethnicities took up arms against the central government in Khartoum, accusing it of marginalizing the region in terms of development and wealth-sharing.
The rebellion promoted Khartoum to launch a counterinsurgency campaign whose end result was the death of 300,000 people and displacements of 2 million, according to UN figures.
Mike Hammer, the White House National Security Council spokesman, said that Obama’s letters had made it clear that “Sudan is one of the [US] administration’s top priorities.”
According to Hammer, the letters were part of “an ongoing diplomatic push to emphasize the importance that Washington places on a peaceful Sudan,” as quoted by Reuters.
Libya’s leader Al-Qaddafi received one of Obama’s letters, as reported by the country’s national T.V on Saturday.
In another vein, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdul Aziz arrived in Sudan on Sunday for a three-day official visit. He was received at Khartoum airport by Al-Bashir, according to the Mauritanian news agency.
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Jamjamez
Mubarak, Qaddafi to visit Sudan for talks with Al-Bashir after Obama letters
Guys! we should really be very careful about the visit of these guys. You know very well that they were here all these years we have been suffering, so it doesn’t make them our friends at these times. Overall, we should not trust our future, we should counter plan any they make.
The southern Sudan referendum has caught many people or Arabs in Khartoum off-guard and they that only days have remind, the realized the southerners are surely serious about this. They thought they will fool us again. That is not happening any more. This is why I hope our leaders are planning the wellbeing of the country.
The oil pipelines from the south should go through Kenya to Lamu because they! the northerners are going to have their own fight. Those who have been neglected economically are going to fight back for their lives. They will attack the oil pipeline. We should build our own Now before times caught up with us.
Tong-Tong
Mubarak, Qaddafi to visit Sudan for talks with Al-Bashir after Obama letters
Al-Qaddafi plus Mubarak! Salfa Kiir and Dr Machar are hard-core southerness who beleive in the independence of South Sudan. They are not like trader Garang who was looking for wealth. These two guys want nothing other than the South’s independence. So, your visit is just a waste of time and money.
We beleive in you Pres. Salfa and your vis. Dr Riek
James Garang
Mubarak, Qaddafi to visit Sudan for talks with Al-Bashir after Obama letters
These two president they are living together with Al Bashir in all these years which Southern Sudanese people are suffering up to now. but right now I am surprise for what they are planning to do.
But let them say what they have in their mind and we are still in our position as we seeking our independent of South Sudan and we are hoping that we are going to achieve our independent whether these two president join their armies against us Southerners we will still come out from their hands because Almighty God is our shelter
Diu J.Kuek
Mubarak, Qaddafi to visit Sudan for talks with Al-Bashir after Obama letters
Dear readers
Egypt President Mubarak and Libyan leader Muammar Al Gaddafi both will arrive in Sudan today for talk with President Omer Al Bashir to discuss the overall situation in Sudan as well as issue of common interests these two elements carrying with their unknown agenda against Southern Sudan.
But is too late for arabs nations to avert the inevitability of Independence of Southern Sudan.
By 25/12/2010 we will celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ.
By 09/01/2011 we will celebrate the Birth of new nation which will be call ‘The Democratic Republic of South Sudan’
We the people of Southern Sudan we come along way just about 21 days to reach our journey destination Janaury/09/2011.which was started from 1955 and the idea of Self-determination put forth by Southern Front this was expressed as Southern Sudan demanded at the round table conference 1965 but was totally rejected by Northern Parties as they were acting as one bloc in the conference so was carry on by the Southern separatists the current Leaders.
The arabs and our brothers in Northern Sudan should not waste their time and their energy for talk about unity since they missed golden opportunity which brought by Addis Ababa Peace Agreement 1972-1983 this can be term as golden Era of unity .which the Southerners were commitment for the unity to the Country.
Now is too late we already decided to say good by to colonial master.
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year will be the year of peace and propersity.
may God bless the people of Southern Sudan.
By Diu Jieth Kuek