Day: May 6, 2023

Envoys from Sudan's warring military factions - the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces - were in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said, as international mediators pressed for an end to the three-week old conflict. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end fighting that has turned parts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum into war zones and derailed an internationally backed plan to usher in civilian rule following years of unrest and uprisings. Riyadh and Washington earlier welcomed the "pre-negotiation talks" between the army and the RSF, and urged them to actively engage following numerous violated ceasefires. But both sides have made it clear they would only discuss a humanitarian truce, not negotiate an end to the war. Confirmi...

Free Patriotic Movement Chief, MP Gebran Bassil, met today with MP Ghassan Skaf at his residence, during which talks touched on the general situation in the country and the presidential elections dossier. Following the meeting, Skaf considered that 'the outside moves are due to internal stagnation and the feeling of regional and international states' of officials' indifference to the suffering of citizens and their distraction with personal matters.' He added, 'Today we are witnessing a decline in the level of external interference in favor of the Lebaneseization of the presidential entitlement, in wake of the actual internal movement we have begun..." Skaff continued: "Based on the positive and open atmosphere that I sensed with Minister Basil, I sincerely address all the other parties, ...

NNA - Caretaker Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Wissam Al-Murtada, in partnership with 'LeBAM', the Lebanese Band Association for the Promotion of Music headed by former deputy, Attorney Ghassan Moukheiber, organized today a musical concert on the internal staircase of the National Museum in Beirut marking the occasion of Martyrs' Day, which was attended by a group of officials, diplomats, social activists and cultural figures. In his word during the event, Minister Murtada said, 'Perhaps our meeting today on the steps of time whose eras and monuments are composed here, to revive a great historical day, with a beautiful concert, is a practical response to all attempts that seek to distort the national present that is suffering from ailments...' He added: 'People need a glimmer of hope...