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Turabi rejects Qatari compromise

    NAIROBI

    Former speaker of the Sudan national assembly Hassan al-Turabi on Tuesday said he had agreed to a Qatari mediator’s proposal that he step down as secretary-general of the ruling National Congress (NC) party, but not that he be replaced by President Omar al-Bashir. “Qatar’s foreign minister proposed that I resign as secretary-general of the NC party,” AFP quoted him as saying. “I told him: ‘certainly, I accept’,” he said. “He came back a second time to propose that the post of secretary-general be given to the president (Omar al-Bashir) and not a third party,” Turabi said. “The fact that the post of secretary-general is given to the president of the republic is against the parliament’s decisions and its statute does not allow the accumulation of these posts,” he added.

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