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From Volume 5, Issue Number 49 of EIR Online, Published Dec. 5, 2006
Africa News Digest

Sudan's President Bashir Defends His Nation's Sovereignty

by Lawrence K. Freeman

"Sudan will not become the first nation of Africa to be re-colonialized," Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a multi-city video-conference with the news media on Nov. 27. In an unusual format, Bashir, speaking from Khartoum, simultaneously addressed audiences in eight capital cities: Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, London, Paris, Pretoria, Moscow, and Washington, and took questions, many of them hostile, for over an hour and half....

See InDepth this week for the complete article, plus a statement by French Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade, "Save Rwanda and Africa," issued on Nov. 27.

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