Who is Whose Sedition, Mr. President?!
Mahgoub El-Tigani August 3rd, 2005 The address by the President of the Republic Mr. Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir today (August 3rd) for the Sudanese people to “stay united, patient, and calm to stop [an alarming] sedition” is politically ineffective. The president decided to establish: 1) a national committee in collaboration with the SPLM to investigate the air crash; 2) a committee to assess the losses of the most recent riots; and 3) a directive to some states to take firm security and administrative measures to secure the tranquility of people and the safety of property. Without firm, daring, responsible, and immediate democratic civil and political steps by the President to end his party’s monopoly of political power, rather than the failing negotiations with the opposition groups for a meager 14 percent power representation vis-à-vis his party’s 52 percent control, let alone any additional security measures “in some states” or some renewed “threats” to the Sudanese “to be careful
