The World - News from May 5, 1986
Sudan’s major centrist parties agreed on a division of power in a broad-based government, to include ministers from the nation’s separatist southern region. Under the accord, reported by the official Sudan News Agency, Sadek Mahdi, leader of the nationalist Umma party, will be prime minister, and the party will hold eight of 18 Cabinet posts. A second major centrist group, the Democratic Unionist Party, will have six portfolios and will nominate the titular head of state. Southerners will hold two posts; minor parties, two others.
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