Africa Spy chiefs conference begins in Sudan’s capital
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June 6, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The eight ordinary session of the Committee
of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) conference
commenced on Monday in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, receiving an
address by President Al-Bashir who promised to recognize the
independence of South Sudan.
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Photo of the opening session of the CISSA eights ordinary conference
in Khartoum (Sudan Media Center website)
Forty heads of intelligence agencies in African countries attended the
conference’s opening session which was also addressed by the
director-general of Sudan National Intelligence and Security Services
(NISS) Mohammed Atta.
In his address, Atta expressed hope that the outcome of the conference
would unify views on the challenges facing the African continent. He
further said that Sudan is proud of what it accomplished for its
neighbors, saying that his country had helped Uganda in fighting the
Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and dismantled Chadian opposition
groups.
Sudan president Omar Al-Bashir also addressed the CISSA’s conference,
striking a conciliatory tone towards South Sudan as it approaches
independence in July this year.
“We have realized peace in South Sudan, and we paid its dues which
resulted in the creation of a new entity in Africa, and we will be the
first to welcome and cooperate with the new nation” Al-Bashir said.
North and South Sudan, which voted to secede and form an independent
state under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil wars with
the north, are currently at loggerheads over the border region of
Abyei in which tension escalated after it was seized by the northern
army earlier this month.
Meanwhile, CISSA chairperson and intelligence chief of Congo
Brazzaville, Philip Obara, said in his address to the conference that
African countries had been in the position of bystanders towards the
events in Libya, allowing the international community to make all the
decisions.
He also called on African countries to use dialogue not force to
protect themselves, warning that the reasons that led to uprisings in
Tunis and Egypt do exist in all countries.
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