Khartoum — The most outstanding issues in the press commentaries last week were: 1/ The fatwa (religious ruling) by runaway clergy Abdelhay Yousif - who is hiding in Turkey to evade corruption cases in Sudan - in which he ruled against the citizens' transferring or exchanging the hard currency they have through the local banks. 2/The controversial revelations by Foreign Minister Ms. Mariam Alsadiq Almahdi in which she said Sudan's lands are wide, its population is little and thus the country does not mind giving the neighboring countries areas to cultivate. 3/The endeavors by the military component of the Sovereignty Council to secure representatives in the planned legislative council.
Wrote Ms. Nahid Qurnas in Aljareeda newspaper about Sheikh Yousif's ruling in which he discouraged the citizens to remit their hard currency through the local banks:
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