By Al-Sudani,
Sudanese Arabic newspaper, Al-Sudani, reported that on June 26, 2011, Haile Menkarios, an Eritrean national and United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative to Sudan, is reported to have been engaged in Khartoum to a Sudanese national called Ala Abdel-Majid Ali Hassan.
Ms. Ala is an employee of the UN in Sudan and the daughter of an ex-Sudanese ambassador.
The Sudanese newspaper reported that families of both the couple, ambassadors, UN employees, and elders attended the engagement ceremony. According to Al-Sudani sources, Mr. Menkarios, a Christian, is expected to go to Egypt to convert to Islam before he marries Ms. Ala.
