Hamas PM on Sudan tour



KHARTOUM (AFP) - Gaza's Hamas premier Ismail Haniya was in Sudan on Wednesday as part of his first official tour of the region since the Islamist movement forcibly seized power in the Palestinian enclave in 2007. Haniya flew to Khartoum on Tuesday evening for an "official visit" and to attend a forum on Jerusalem, the official SUNA news agency reported. It said he was greeted at Khartoum Airport by Ibrahim Ahmed Omar, an adviser to President Omar al-Bashir, but SUNA did not elaborate on who Haniya would meet or how long he would stay in the country. However, a presidency official told AFP Haniya would meet Bashir, "but not today."

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