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Turabi launches new political party

    NAIROBI

    Hassan al-Turabi, the former parliamentary speaker and ex-secretary general of Sudan’s ruling National Congress (NC) party, announced the launching of a new political party on Tuesday, the Sudanese news agency (SUNA) reported. Turabi told a press conference at his Khartoum residence that the new party, the People’s National Congress, would be a “comprehensive shura organisation”, indicating that it would be outside the government. He accused President Omar al-Bashir of betraying the NC’s Islamist tenets and said two cabinet ministers were defecting with him, according to Agence France Presse (AFP). Turabi, a former close ally of Bashir, was dismissed as parliamentary speaker last December after a power struggle between the two men. Bashir moved further to consolidate his position in May, when he suspended Turabi from the NC. The dismissal was confirmed at a meeting of the NC Consultative Council on Monday.

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