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Sudan delays elections by six days...southern independence promised in January 2011 under the same peace accord. North Sudan's dominant National Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday said it supported the latest small delay, which would give voters more time to sign up. "We are... In this article: Sudan, National Congress Party, Africa, and Khartoum |
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BBC News | November 08, 2009
Bashir cancels visit to Istanbul
...change Turkey's mind over President Bashir. But Suna said he was returning to Khartoum to "find a solution" to a dispute between his ruling National Congress Party and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. Mr Bashir has visited several...
In this article: Omar al-Bashir, European Union, Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Darfur, National Congress Party, Abdullah Gul, and Sudan
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Reuters | November 03, 2009
Monitors worried about Sudan election, freedoms
...on secession for the south and the oil-rich Abyei region and on reform of the intelligence services. The SPLM and the north's dominant National Congress Party (NCP) are also in dispute over the results of a census which should be the...
In this article: Sudan, National Congress Party, Carter Center, NEC, and United Nations
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BBC News | November 02, 2009
Oil bonanza?
...warfare in the south ahead of national elections due next year and a referendum on whether the south should secede from Sudan in 2011. The National Congress Party of President Omar al-Bashir has always denied the charge, and the SPLM has...
In this article: Allegation, Sudan, Revenue, Goat, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and National Congress Party
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Reuters | October 31, 2009
S. Sudan president makes first call for independence
...add pressure to the already troubled relationship between Kiir's Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the north's dominant National Congress Party (NCP). Both sides promised to build up a campaign to make the unity of Sudan...
In this article: Sudan, Salva Kiir, United Nations, Ideology, National Congress Party, and Barack Obama
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Reuters | October 26, 2009
Opposition parties walk out of Sudan parliament
...conflict included a new democratic constitution limiting the powers of the security service to gathering intelligence. Bashir's National Congress Party (NCP) tabled a National Security Forces law in parliament which would allow the...
In this article: Sudan, United Nations, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Africa, Cairo, and Democracy
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ThinkProgress | October 19, 2009
Obama's New Sudan Policy: Sounds Good, But Implementation is Key
...tricky. The evidence from Gration's tenure so far - and even more importantly, the heinous 20-year track-record of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party, or NCP - is unambiguous: Khartoum is not a partner that can be cajoled into behaving...
In this article: Sudan, Khartoum, U.S., Darfur, Culpability, Self-determination, Susan Rice, and National Congress Party
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PR Newswire | October 19, 2009
POLICY BRIEF: The Fierce Urgency of Implementation: The New U.S. Policy in Sudan
First, for the past seven months, U.S. diplomacy toward Sudan has tilted dangerously in the direction of appeasement of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party, or NCP. Repeated public and private rhetoric favoring incentives over...
In this article: United States, Sudan, Darfur, Center for American Progress, National Congress Party, UN, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Biden, and Culpability
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Kansas City Star | October 19, 2009
Obama offers Sudan a carrot and a stick
</p><p>Southern Sudanese officials greeted the new policy warily. </p><p>"If the new approach includes pressure on the NCP" - al-Bashir's National Congress Party - "we will welcome it," said John Andruga Duku, the head of the southern...
In this article: Barack Obama, Sudan, Scott Gration, Omar al-Bashir, Darfur, Andrew Natsios, Revenue, Susan Rice, National Congress Party, and Khartoum
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L.A. Times - Commentary | October 19, 2009
Sudan's state-sponsored pyromania
...people in 100 days. Now, another low-tech, clandestine approach to orchestrating mass atrocities is being perfected by the ruling National Congress Party, or NCP, in Sudan. No need for shovels or machetes when you have a box of matches.
In this article: Sudan, Pyromania, U.S., Darfur, Direct evidence, Lord's Resistance Army, Center for American Progress, and National Congress Party
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BBC News | October 16, 2009
Terms for Sudan referendum agreed
...by officials in the north and south, it marks a breakthrough. There was no immediate comment from the President Omar al-Bashir's National Congress Party. However, our correspondent says many in the south are already celebrating what...
In this article: Riek Machar, Sudan, Khartoum, National Congress Party, Ali Osman Taha, Omar al-Bashir, and BBC
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The National Congress (Arabic: المؤتمر الوطني; ') is the governing official political party of Sudan. It was created in 1998 by certain elements in the former National Islamic Front (NIF) organization, as well as other politicians, as a legal political party. A splinter group, the Popular National Congress Party, broke off of the National Congress Party in 2000 after disagreements between President Omar al-Bashir and former Speaker of the Parliament Hassan al-Turabi.
National Congress Party members were recently elected as heads of the Lawyers' Union and heads of most of North Sudan's agricultural unions.
The National Congress Party also has a notable Southern Sudanese membership as manifested through the inclusion of Southern National Congress members in South Sudan's government. The National Congress southern sector is headed by former Vice President Moses Machar and Southern Presidential Advisor Riak Gai Kok.
At the last legislative elections, December 2000, the party won 355 out of 360 seats. At the presidential elections of the same year, its candidate Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir won 86.5 % and was re-elected.
The National Congress Party is the main partner in the power-sharing agreement that is part of the comprehensive peace accords signed in January 2005 to end Sudan's civil war. The other main partner in the power sharing agreement is the formerly rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement. The National Congress party head is Omar al-Bashir. In 2005 it merged with the Alliance of Working Peoples' Forces Party of former President Gaafar Nimeiry, who had won 9.6 % in Sudan's last Presidential elections.
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