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When Nimeiri was ousted in a bloodless coup last year by his Defense Minister, Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, it seemed peace might be restored. But before long, the fighting resumed. In May the first national election since 1968 brought to power Sadiq el Mahdi, leader of the moderate Muslim Umma Party. Making peace his top priority, the Oxford-educated Sadiq lost no time in arranging a meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed...
After 17 years of military control, Sudan once again has a democratically elected Prime Minister. He is Sadiq el Mahdi, 50, the Oxford-educated head of the Umma Party and the great-grandson of the mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed, who defeated the British General Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon at Khartoum...
...adopt the strict Islamic law that mandated punishments like amputating the hands of thieves. The party and its charismatic leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, still have a large constituency among the poor and the young. But analysts predict that the Umma Party, lead by former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi, 50, the great-grandson of the revered leader whose forces defeated British General Charles Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, will emerge as the main force in a new governing coalition...
Both the orchestra and the music director. Philip Lasser, deserve praise for a strong and consistent job; director Charles Berney should be commended for all but his somewhat mechanical choreography. Fatima Mahdi's costumes are charming, and Adam Kibbe's impressive sets deserved a curtain call all their...
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...