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Vol 41 No 1

Published 7th January 2000


Sudan

Manipulation

In their first joint mission, Egypt's and Libya's foreign ministers, Amr Moussa and Omer el Muntasser, were in Sudan on 4 January to boost President Omer el Beshir against Hassan el Turabi. They followed their Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al Thani, who tried to reconcile Lieutenant General Omer and Turabi. After visiting Cairo too, Hamad gave up, complaining Turabi had rejected proposals that he'd previously accepted.

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