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| Africa Horn |
| Sudan opposition 'to oust regime' |
| 2011-01-05 |
| [Al Jazeera] Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese opposition leader, once seen as the real power in his country, has said that opposition parties are working on peaceful ways to overthrow the government of president Omar al-Bashir. "As dialogue with the regime took a long time, and after opposition leaders realised that the elections were hopeless... they have agreed to topple the regime," Turabi, once Bashir's mentor but now one of his fiercest critics, said on Monday. "Sub-committees have been designated to prepare... the means by which to overthrow the regime right after the results of the referendum are announced," added Turabi of the upcoming vote on independence for south Sudan. Al Jizz's Omar al-Saleh, reporting from Khartoum, said the government was facing a lot of opposition calls to be toppled. "The Popular National Congress Party led by Hassan al-Turabi, the Ummah Party led by Sadiq al-Mahdi and other parties in Sudan are calling for the government to step down after the referendum," he said. "They threatened that they will take to the streets to do so - there is no talk about violence in this process and they said that the means will be peaceful." |
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