Sudan’s Opposition UMMA Party to Challenge Dissolution Threat

Sudan’s largest opposition, the National UMMA party (NUP), said it will oppose by all means necessary an attempt by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) to have the party dissolved or frozen. In a complaint to Sudan’s Political Parties Council, the agency said UMMA party leader Sadig al-Mahdi violated Sudan’s Interim Constitution and Political Parties Act of 2007 when he signed the Paris Declaration with rebel groups fighting against president Omar al-Bashir’s...

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