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Women Participation in Coming Elections |
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The First forum of the Sudanese Parliamentarian Women id due to be organized by the National Group of Sudanese Parliamentarian Women, is to convene during March 18 -20, under patronage of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir. Several parliamentarian women will take part in the forum, including participants from Arab and African countries as well as Indonesia and China. Head of the Women Parliamentary Group, Ustaza Samiya Sid-Ahmed, recently met with the Undersecretary of the South Sudan Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Julia Giong, and discussed coordination for participation of the southern parliamentarian women in the forum and the women participation in the coming elections. Ustaza Samiya praised representation of Sudanese women during the interim period, where their number in the National Assembly and the Council of the States reached 83 women. She pointed out that the forum would be held as the first time in Sudan with participation of all the states in Sudan, stating that it will discuss important women issues and working papers
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