Sudan: Darfur Rebel Leader to Be Honoured in Khartoum

Khartoum — The chairman and commander-in-chief of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) in Darfur, Minni Minnawi, is expected to arrive in Khartoum on Saturday to be sworn in as assistant to President Umar al-Bashir.

"Minni Arko Minnawi will be sworn in as assistant to the president of the republic, the fourth highest constitutional post in the country, on Sunday," Mahgoub Hussein, the official spokesman of the SLM/A, told journalists in Khartoum on Thursday.

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