North Sudan’s NCP to establish political party in the south

March 12, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – South Sudanese members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in north Sudan have decided to establish a new political party in the emerging state of South Sudan.

The decision came during the Shura conference of the NCP’s sector in South Sudan which was attended by President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir in Khartoum, as reported by Sudan’s official news agency (SUNA) on Saturday.

The leading member of the NCP’s sector in South Sudan has instructed all southern members of the NCP to relocate to the south in order to help shape the political landscape there.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), which controls South Sudan, recently announced that its north Sudan sector would split to form a new political party in the north under the leadership of Malik Aggar, the governor of the Blue Nile State.

North and South Sudan fought nearly two decades of civil war before they signed a peace agreement in 2005. The deal provided for the conduct of a referendum on the independence of South Sudan which voted overwhelmingly in January to secede from the north.

(ST)