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Opposition "to work for reconciliation"

    BUJUMBURA

    Khartoum has secured an agreement with former prime minister, Sadeq al-Mahdi - leader of the opposition Umma party, a member of the NDA - to work with the government for national reconciliation, news organisations reported on Monday.

    The deal, brokered between al-Mahdi and parliamentary Speaker Hassan al-Turabi, committed the two "to work to find a mechanism
    aimed at reaching a Sudanese political agreement able to solve all issues in dispute", AFP said.

    The SPLM spokesman in Nairobi, Dr Samson Kwaje, told IRIN on Tuesday: "We consider it is just one party of the NDA talking to the NIF (National Islamic Front). We have no problem with Umma talking to the government about general principles and hope that what Umma is doing is not going to compromise the principles of the NDA in general."

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