Sudanese president appoints three presidential advisers

• Source: Xinhua
• [08:56 August 03 2010]
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Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir on Monday appointed three presidential advisers, all of whom are members of Sudan's People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the official SUNA news agency reported.

The three appointed are Mansour Khalid, Haroun Lual Ruun and Andrew Makore, the report quoted a republican decree as saying, it added the number of the presidential adviser has risen to 14, most of who are from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and were appointed on July 2010.

The NCP and the SPLM form a coalition government that would be responsible for organizing the referendum on self-determination for southern Sudan, due in January 2011.

The South Sudan referendum has been stipulated by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), inked between north and south in 2005, which ended a two-decade war between the two.

The NCP and the SPLM have embarked on complicated talks on post referendum arrangements in the face of growing differences on border demarcation and issues about another referendum on the oil- rich Abyei area.