Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses the general conference of the ruling National Congress Party in Khartoum.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir yesterday urged opponents to join him in “national dialogue” talks, days after it was announced he would be seeking to extend his 25-year rule. He has been pressing sceptical opponents to take part in a “national dialogue” and repeated that call to party faithful at a congress in Khartoum. “Dialogue is the only way to solve the problems about power sharing,” he said. Hassan al-Turabi, a key Islamist behind the coup that brought Bashir to power, also attended the congress yesterday. A power struggle with Bashir saw Turabi dismissed from the NCP leadership a decade after the coup, but the two met for the first time in March.
