Sudan threatens to expel poll observers

  1. Posted on Tuesday 23 March 2010 - 09:27
    Muhyadin
    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir has threatened on Monday to sack foreign election observers after they said April's vote should be postponed. Bashir said the international election monitors were brought in Sudan to see the free and fair election but not to intervene in Sudan's affairs.
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    "If they interfere in our affairs, we will cut their fingers off, put them under our shoes, and throw them out," president al-Bashir was quoted.

    Speaking to his supporters in the eastern town of Port Sudan, Bashir said "We have accepted the arrival of foreign observers for the elections."

    The Carter Center, which runs the only long-term monitoring mission in the country, said last week that Sudan may have to delay its first multi-party elections in 24 years because of logistical delays and also hundreds of thousands of names missing from the voters list.

    The general election will be the first multi-party vote since 1986 and it was signed under a 2005 peace deal.

    The Muslim north and Christian south Sudan have lived together after the 22-year civil war which brought into being the Comprehensive Peace Agreement on January 9, 2005.

    Bashir seized power of the Africa’s largest nation after a bloodless coup in 1989 and elected as president twice in polls.

    Many of opposition parties have also called for the election to be delayed.

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