University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Sudan council to head power change
By United Press International
HARTOMU. Sudan — Sudan's military council, two weeks after coming to power, appointed a 16-man civilized Cabinet today to oversee a yearlong transition from military to civilian rule.
The announcement effectively ends 16 years of military rule in Sudan.
The leader of the council, Gen. Abdul Rahman Swar al-Dahab, made the Cabinet announcement during a national television and radio broadcast last night.
Al-Dahab led the palace coup that ousted President Jaafar Numeiry from 16 years of military rule April 6, following a week of demonstrations against the government over food price increases.
Al-Dahab said the Cabinet will be headed by Dr. Dafalla el Gizouli as prime minister.
A PROMINENT politician from the rebellious south of the country, Samuel Aro Bol, head of the Southern Sudanese Political Association, was named deputy prime minister and minister of irrigation.
Rebels fighting a two-year war in southern Sudan in their efforts for
autonomy have rejected the military government as an extension of the Numeiry regime.
The military council kept control of the defense portfolio by naming Brigadier Osman Abdulla as the minister of defense.
Sudan's chief of police, Gen. Abbas Madani was named the minister of the interior in charge of internal security and police.
The formation of the civilian-led cabinet had been stalled for almost two weeks since the coup, because of intense political squabbling among the more than 80 trade unions and 30
political parties fighting for seats on the transitional government.
El Gizouli said the civilian cabinet was faced with three basic challenges during its year of transition.
"The first and perhaps toughest is making good on our goal that within a year we will hold a general election, draft a constitution and return power to the people," the prime minister said in an interview with UPI.
He listed the other two challenges as ending the civil war in the south and improving Sudan's stagnant economy, faced with $9 billion in foreign debt.
Rebel Christian gunmen call cease-fire
SIDON, Lebanon — Rebel Christian gunmen yesterday declared a unilateral cease-fire to halt a bloody monthlong artillery battle with Muslim militiamen, but police said a child was killed and more than 30 civilians were wounded before the fighting died down.
Christian rebel chief Samir Geagea, in a news conference in Beirut, announced that his men would stop firing on Sidon, 24 miles south of Beirut, from their positions in hillside villages to the east of the city. He also said his troops would begin withdrawing today.
By United Press International
"We will meticulously abide by the cease-fire to give peace a chance," Geagae told reporters. "We will also withdraw those of our forces which had been sent to the region as reinforcements, but the local armed villagers will stay and defend their lands and homes."
AN ESTIMATED 90 people have been killed and 700 wounded in the Sidon area since Christian militia rebels began fighting with Muslim militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas on March 18.
The shelling came to a halt yesterday, one hour after the ceasefire deadline at 4 p.m. local time. Lebanese officials said.
into Sidon since, and there has been no firing from the city center at the Christian villages," a police officer said. "Things are easing but they still have trouble on the front lines."
In the hours before the cause-fire took effect in Sidon hospital spokesman Hassan Awad-led ford child and killed a 3-year-old child and wounded 31 other civilians.
"Not a single shell has been fired
After the deadline, scattered fighting was reported still rocking the front lines separating rebellious Christian "Lebanese Forces" militiamen from Muslim gunmen and their Palestinian allies.
THE PRO-SRAELI Lebanese Forces rebelled against President Amin Gemayel, also a Christian, on
March 12 in a dispute over his Syrian-oriented policies. They began fighting with their Muslim and Palestinian rivals six days later.
Muslim leaders have called the Lebanese Forces paws in what they charge is an Israeli plot to stir up enough fighting in order to frighten Christians in the Muslim dominated flee south to the Israeli border.
But Geagea has charged the Palestinian and Muslim forces with starting the fighting.
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