The World - News from July 8, 1985
Sudan will ask Egypt to extradite deposed President Jaafar Numeiri and will try him in absentia if Cairo does not hand him over, Prime Minister Dafallah Gazouli said. Sudanese activists allege that Numeiri had a “treasonable” role in the exodus to Israel through Sudan of thousands of Ethiopian Jews. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has already said he will not send Numeiri back to Sudan.
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