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.
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