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Garang press conference disrupted

    NAIROBI

    Police in Khartoum on Wednesday arrested 17 people, including two journalists, on public order charges as they gathered for a telephone press conference with SPLA leader John Garang, news agencies reported on Thursday. The opposition Democratic Forces Front (DFF) leader Ghazi Suleiman had arranged the conference with Garang, who was in the Eritrean capital Asmara for a meeting with partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on the future of Sudan. Garang said the NDA had entered “a decisive moment” and urged its members to remain united at a time of “crisis within the regime”, AFP news agency reported. The NDA leadership agreed in Asmara “to step up the NDA’s struggle in the fields of popular uprising and military operations” while also intensifying the search for a political and negotiated settlement.

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