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Herald Reporter
THE Republic of Sudan is keen on having collaboration between its news agency Sudan News Agency and Zimbabwe’s New Ziana to enhance relations between the two countries, its ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Hamdan Wadi Dlodoom has said. He made the remarks after paying a courtesy call on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo at his offices yesterday.
“We discussed issues around an agreement between the two news agencies.
“I requested His Honourable, the Minister (Prof Moyo) to help us to get the two news agencies together in order to sign an agreement for us to work together as news agencies,” said Ambassador Dlodoom.
“Such an agreement will help us in order to co-operate. The reason for that is because we know when we won our independence and I think even Zimbabwe is the same, the colonisers left us isolated from our brothers in Africa.
“That is why we are now trying to communicate.
“In order to communicate, we have to have the mechanisms which enable us to communicate with others.”
Ambassador Dlodoom said he told Prof Moyo that his Government hailed the way Zimbabwe conducted the July 31 harmonised elections that were given a clean bill of health by all the organisations that observed the polls as having been free, fair and credible.
He added that the Republic of Sudan was grateful for the role Zimbabwe played in solving problems in that country.
The Sudanese diplomat said he briefed Prof Moyo about the improving relations between his country and South Sudan.
“We have been one country and now we are two sovereign entities. We have had difficulties but now, I have just informed him (Minister Moyo) that we have almost overcome all those difficulties.
“We are now heading towards having very peaceful relations with our brothers in the South.
“Since we are neighbours, we have to live peacefully and if you are to live peacefully, you have to leave all sorts of conflicts far away,” he said.
South Sudan broke away from the Republic of Sudan over a year ago, but relations between the two countries have been frosty over many issues, including control of oil resources, transport routes, and border security.
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