Sudan’s NCP says progress achieved in dialogue with Umma party
April 13, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has hailed its ongoing dialogue with the National Umma Party (NUP) saying that it has reached “an advanced stage” despite conflicting reports saying otherwise.
The opposition party led by the former prime minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi has began talks with the ruling party in the North aimed at breaking a political stalemate and amid growing tensions between the government and the opposition parties.
North Sudan is encountering worsening economic conditions caused by rising inflation and shortage of foreign currency reserves as well as the secession of south Sudan which voted for independence in a referendum earlier this year.
NCP officials are also concerned about the possibility that the revolutionary fever sweeping the region may reach Sudan.
Al-Mahdi’s meeting with president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir earlier this year has angered other Northern opposition parties and even many within the NUP who are pushing for confrontation with the government.
The ex-PM told his supporters in El-Gadaref state this week that the NCP has the option of accepting what he described as the “National Agenda” or face an uprising.
Sources at the NUP told Sudan Tribune that so far little success has been made so far in bridging the differences between the two sides. The talks are centered on initiating a democratic transformation process after South Sudan’s secession becomes formal next July.
The NCP’s political secretary Ibrahim Ghandour said that joint committees are negotiating in “good spirits” and downplayed Al-Mahdi’s remarks in El-Gadaref suggesting that it was made as a political tactic.
On the other hand the NUP revealed that a committee has been formed to prepare contingency plans should an agreement be reached with the NCP or if they fail to broker a deal.
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Paul Ongee
Sudan’s NCP says progress achieved in dialogue with Umma party
This how NCP rushes to the media to manipulate public opinion especially supporters of Umma Party and PCP of Turabi. Tomorrow you will hear a different story from Umma camp. After all, they’re all birds of the same feathers though living in opposite angles. NCP got the money now but after July 9th, it will face what Al-Mahdi and Turabi often refer to as “popular uprising” besides the looming revolutionary fever infecting dictators across the Arab countries.
Paul Ongee
Khartoum, Sudan
Paul Ongee
Sudan’s NCP says progress achieved in dialogue with Umma party
This is how NCP rushes to the media to manipulate public opinion especially supporters of Umma Party and PCP of Turabi. Tomorrow you will hear a different story as usual from the Umma camp. After all, they’re all birds of the same feathers though living in opposite angles.
Both or all of the Northern opposition parties needs power to competitively interpret Quran to govern the country. Nobody knows who is the perfect interpreter of the day. NCP got the money now but after July 9th, it will face what Al-Mahdi and Turabi often refer to as “popular uprising” besides the looming revolutionary fever infecting dictators across the Arab countries.
Paul Ongee
Khartoum, Sudan