Sudanese opposition, rebel leaders discuss Nairobi, Cairo talks

KHARTOUM, Nov 4, 2004 (Al-Sahafah) — The head of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, yesterday received a telephone call from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) leader, John Garang, on the outcome of the Sudanese peace talks in Cairo, Nairobi and Karen in Kenya.

The NDA’s official spokesman, Hatim al-Sir, told Khartoum based Al-Sahafah that the SPLM leader briefed the NDA leader on the outcome of the proceedings of the technical committee in charge of finding ways of implementing a future peace agreement with the government.

According to the NDA spokesman, Al-Mirghani said there was not any competition between the three dialogue platforms, i.e. Cairo, Nairobi and Abuja, and described them all as efforts complementing each other in the search of a radical solution to the country’s problems.

Material from the BBC Monitoring Service