Peace Caravan to Sudan

The Sudanese National Democratic Alliance Youth Organisations (Sudanese Youth Union, Democratic Unionist Party Youth Section, Beja Congress and Sudanese Women's Voice for Peace) in collaboration with the Society for Threatened Peoples, Sudan Forum, Frauennetwerk and South Sudan Student's Association in Germany, have organised a peace caravan in the Sudan to be held from December 10-17.

Titled International Peace Caravan to Sudan, the mission will be restricted to New Kush in southern Sudan. It will focus on political dialogue in form of workshop on the Sudanese civil strife, fact finding and cultural performances. Registration fee is $100 per participant. Participants are expected to arrive in Nairobi, Kenya, on December 8-9 from where they will travel to New Kush by
air-conditioned buses.

Results of the discussion and fact finding mission will be submitted to UN bodies, Organisation of African Unity (OAU), Inter-Governmental Agreement on Drought and Desertification, (IGADD), Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference and the All African Council of Churches (AACC). For further
information, interested parties can contact Dr. Samson Kwaje on telephone number 254 2 502165, Nairobi, or Faysal Mustafa on 254 2 7155241, Nairobi. More information can also be obtained from Arkangelo Modesto of telephone Number 49 30 29449706, Berlin, Germany.

Africa News Nov 96.