News Article by AFP posted on August 27, 2008 at 10:20:22: EST (-5 GMT)
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President Bashir visit South Sudan To Sign Hydropower Deal JUBA, Sudan (AFP)-- Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir was visiting the capital of autonomous southern Sudan Wednesday for the first time in almost two years. The head of state, who faces a possible international arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in the country's western region of Darfur, was greeted by a full guard of honor at Juba airport. Wearing a safari suit and accompanied by stringent security he then drove into town to sign a hydro-electric agreement, which officials in Khartoum said paved the way for three dams to be built in southern Sudan. "The contract will be with a Chinese company to build three dams, two in Equatoria and the third in Bahr el-Ghazal," spokesman for the dams authority, Isam Omar, told AFP in Khartoum. The president last visited Juba in January, 2007, when he and First Vice President Salva Kiir, the former rebel who is president of the south, traded accusations over failures in implementing the peace agreement that ended 21 years of civil war.
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