Sudanese ‘Peace Cabinet’ Sworn After Presidency Backs All 23 Candidates
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — The broad-based “Peace Cabinet” of Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi was sworn in Saturday shortly after the State Council, Sudan’s collective presidency, endorsed all 23 candidates.
The Cabinet includes almost all the nation’s political groups as well as the trade unions.
Saturday’s swearing-in ended a political crisis that had confronted Mahdi since January. The Democratic Unionist Party, a partner in his Cabinet, resigned then to protest Mahdi’s refusal to endorse a peace agreement the party signed Nov. 16 with the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
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