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Arabic Media

Novmeber 14, 2007

Source: Al Khaleej (UAE daily, with over 80,000 in circulation)
Headline: Rebel Movement Threatens to Overrun Khartoum with Fighters If Journalist Killers Were Executed

Eritrean Capital Asmara is hosting a meeting for Sudan neighboring countries in order to put down a peace roadmap between the ruling coalition and Darfur rebel groups next month in Libya under the auspices of AU and UN
Sudanese representative, Ambassador Abu Zeid Al Hasan Abu Zeid, said that closed-door meetings in Libya have ended, but rebel groups are still meeting to working on a common negotiations vision
Meanwhile, Sudan Liberation Movement threatened to overrun Khartoum with armed men and go after all National Congress Party members if Journalist killers were executed

Source: Al Hayat (Saudi-owned Pan-Arab daily with wide circulation)
Headline: Al Mahdi Says “Secession of South Sudan Will Lead to War between Two Countries” and Bush and Silva Kiir to Discuss Darfur Crisis and Peace Agreement in the South
By: Annour Ahmed Annour

Former Prime Minister and Umma Party Leader Assadig Al Mahdi warned that Sudan was facing a dangerous crisis if unresolved could cause the country’s division and subsequently war between the South and North
Meanwhile, the White House announced that President Bush will meet with South Sudan leader Silva Kiir to discuss the crises in Darfur and South Sudan
South Sudan government withdrew its ministers from Khartoum in protest over National Congress Party leaders’ stalling and delaying tactics in implementing the 2005 peace agreement
Al Mahdi criticized that peace agreement and called on Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and National Congress Party to resolve their differences through the people of Sudan and not the regional or international community
On his part, Sudanese Minister of Humanitarian Conditions Ahmed Mohamed Harun recognized the difficulty of implementing the 2005 peace agreement, but added that it is not impossible and that it is the only solution to end the current crisis

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1 TOGO SANS ETHNIES

Action Professionals Association for the People

Aegis Trust Rwanda

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies

African Center for Development

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies

Africa Internally Displaced Persons Voice (Africa IDP Voice)

African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)

African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)

The Ahueni Foundation

Alliances for Africa

Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

Andalus Institute for Tolerance

Anti-Slavery International

Arab Coalition for Darfur

Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

Association Africaine de Defense des Droits de l'Homme (ASADHO)

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE)

Centre for Research Education and Development of Freedom of Expression and Associated Rights (CREDO)

Citizens for Global Solutions

Conscience International

Conseil National Pour les Libertés en Tunisie

Darfur Alert Coalition (DAC)

Darfur Centre for Human Rights and Development

Darfur Leaders Network (DLN)

Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO)

Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre

East Africa Law Society

Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

Femmes Africa Solidarité

La Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

Forum of African Affairs (FOAA)

Human Rights First

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa

Institute for Security Studies

Inter-African Union for Human Rights (UIDH)

Interights

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya)

International Refugee Rights Initiative

Justice Africa

Justice and Peace Commission

Lawyers for Human Rights

Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections

Legal Resources Consortium-Nigeria

Ligue Tunisienne des Droits de l'Homme

Makumira University College, Tumaini University

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)

Minority Rights Group

National Association of Seadogs

Never Again International

Open Society Justice Initiative

Pan-African Movement

Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO)

Sierra Leone STAND Chapter

Sisters' Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT)

Syrian Organization for Human Rights

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

Universal Human Rights Network

WARIPNET

Women Initiative Nigeria (WIN)