The World - News from June 18, 1985
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, visiting Sudan for the first time since the coup against Jaafar Numeiri, said he will never extradite the ousted Sudanese president, Egypt’s official news agency reported. “Egypt respects political refugees and has given asylum to more than 100 of them,” Mubarak told a Sudanese reporter. Numeiri was in Cairo on April 6, the day of the coup, and Mubarak dissuaded him from returning to Sudan. Mubarak is in Khartoum at the the invitation of Sudan’s new leader, Gen. Abdul-Rahman Suwar Dahab, who has detained many former officials of Numeiri’s government.
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