DIMISSED BUT HE ALLWAYS HAVE THE SAME MOSLIM bROTHERS THOUGHTS.

Dismissal of key NCP figure from party "imminent" over memo to Sudanese president: report


September 29, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) is poised to fire former head of its parliamentary caucus Ghazi Salah al-Deen al-Attabani over a memo he sponsored along with 30 others that was sent to president Omer Hassan al-Bashir yesterday, according to a newspaper report.

The signatories included party officials, lawmakers, retired military officers and Islamists who decried the government’s violent crackdown on protestors which led to 33 deaths according to official figures contrary to activists and opposition who put the death toll in the 100’s.

They also urged the government to reverse its decision to lift fuel subsidies which led to the week-long riots and to prosecute those behind the killings and asserted that the demonstrators were not allowed to "peacefully express their views in line with the constitution".

The petition emphasized that NCP sections did not agree with the move which government asserted was necessary to prevent an economic collapse.

The decision to lift subsidies led to almost doubling the prices of gasoline and diesel which is widely expected to immediately cause a domino effect of raising prices of other goods and services.

Al-Attabani, who was Bashir’s adviser, said that the 1989 coup led by the president came with the pledge of implementing the Islamic Shar’ia laws which prohibits shedding blood and calls for achieving justice among the subjects of the state and securing basic rights including the freedom of belief and expression.

"But the package of measures introduced by the government and the subsequent suppression of opponents is far from compassion, justice and the realization of the right to believe and peaceful expression," the letter reads.

"The legitimacy of your rule has never been at stake like it is today" they said in their letter to Bashir.

But on Sunday, Qays Ahmed al-Mustafa, spokesperson for the NCP said that Bashir has received no such petition and called for ignoring rumors.

A copy of the memo was published on al-Attabani’s Facebook page and no denial was made on his part of co-sponsoring it.

Another NCP leading figure Hassabo Abdulrahman warned that the 31 signatories will be held accountable but added some of those whose names appeared on the memo denied endorsing it.

On Monday, the al-Khartoum daily newspaper quoted informed source as saying that al-Attabani will soon be dismissed from the party.

Al-Attabani is widely known to be a leading figure in the reformist faction within the NCP and people close to him say that he is privately fiercely critical of the ruling party and its policies.

He has fought silent battles to initiate structural changes in the NCP and the underlying Islamist Movement (IM) but the party’s old guard has effectively shot down all his initiatives.

Last July he publicly released his vision of reform he is seeking in the government and state.

Al-Attabani was removed from his post as NCP majority leader in the national assembly which many said was in response to his assertions that Bashir is constitutionally barred from running again for presidency.

But many reformists in the NCP and IM are critical of Al-Attabani saying that he is unwilling to take a firm and unequivocal stance against the government in his push for change and is only talking of change in very general terms.

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He will finish like Gedafi of Libya.

Sudanese capital witnesses protests for the fifth day amid reports of more deaths


September 27, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese capital today saw continued demonstrations by anti-government protestors following Friday prayers as public anger grew over the growing death toll in the unrest that came in the wake of Khartoum’s decision to cut fuel subsidies.

Sudan Tribune reporters said that the twin capital city of Omdurman witnessed the fiercest clashes between thousands of demonstrators chanting "Freedom! Freedom!" and security forces which used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protestors.

Other areas of Khartoum also saw protests but at a lesser scale than Omdurman.

In Kalakla area, south of Khartoum, eyewitnesses said that some police units joined protestors. East of Kalakla the police had deployed in large numbers near mosques in anticipation of protests following Friday prayers. However, they did not intervene when people took the streets and just monitored them.

Sudan Tribune reporters could only ascertain 6 deaths in today’s protests but the Turkish Anadolu news agency put the death toll at 9.

Authorities downplayed today’s protests saying that calm has mostly returned to the streets despite some demonstrations that was swiftly broken up.

The police in a statement accused an "unknown party" of firing bullets at protestors leading to the death of 4.

It urged citizens to ignore rumors and incitement and avoid taking part in these protests.

According to official figures, 31 people were killed so far in this week’s riots including policemen with hundreds of injuries.

In Burri area of Khartoum, a funeral is planned on Saturday morning for one of the dead protestors named Salah al-Sanhoori was reportedly shot with a bullet to his chest.

Speaking earlier today in a radio talk show, interior minister Ibrahim Mahmoud disclosed that the police arrested more than 600 people during protests, adding that 100 individuals are investigated and they will appear before the courts next week.

He confirmed the burning some public establishments, private vehicles and cars in the capital adding they deployed policemen to protect the 220 fuel stations in Khartoum.

He went further to say he does not rule out possible involvement of rebel groups in the "acts of sabotage".

US & UN CONDEMNS VIOLENCE

The US on Friday issued a condemnation of the "brutal crackdown" on protestors and " excessive use of force against civilians".

"Such a heavy-handed approach by Sudanese security forces is disproportionate, deeply concerning, and risks escalation of the unrest" the US State department said.

"The United States condemns violence by government forces and protesters, and urges restraint on both sides. We also call on the Government of Sudan to respect the universal rights of its citizens, including the freedoms of speech, assembly, and peaceful protest" the statement reads.

The statement also expressed alarm over crackdown on civil society activists, media outlets and restricted access to the internet and cell phone networks.

"We urge the Government of Sudan to provide the political space necessary for a meaningful dialogue with the Sudanese people about the political and economic challenges facing their country".

In Geneva the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Cécile Pouilly, on Friday issued a statement expressing concern following reports about excessive use of force against peaceful protesters .

"We are deeply concerned about reports that a significant number of people have been killed during the demonstrations taking place across Sudan since Monday", Pouilly said.

The spokesperson called on the Sudanese authorities to "show utmost restraint" and to refrain from resorting to violence, stressing that "under international law, intentional lethal use of firearms can only be justified when strictly unavoidable and only in order to protect life".

She called on protesters to maintain the peaceful nature of their demonstrations.

"We also urge the authorities to respect the civil liberties of those protesting and, in particular, their right to assemble peacefully and express their views,” she further said.

MEDIA CRACKDOWN

Today, the security service closed the bureaus of UAE-based Al-Arabiya and Sky New Arabic Service television stations, accusing them of false reporting on this week’s events.

Al-Sudani and Al-Meghar Al-Siyasi newspapers were banned from publication for Saturday edition.

Diaa Al-Deen Bilal, editor in chief of Al-Sudani said he was notified of the temporary suspension but no reason was provided. He noted that the newspaper has not been able to publish since Thursday.

Bilal stressed that the decision prevents them from reaching their readership on top of the financial losses.

He slammed the Sudanese Journalists syndicate for playing a "zero role" in the protection of newspapers against the crackdown now or in the past.

Journalists of the independent newspaper Al-Sahafa also decided today to resign collectively from the daily to protest against the censorship imposed by the security service which prevents them from freely covering the recent protests across the country.

Since the beginning of the protests the security services prevented the local press from publishing reports about the demonstrations except from official sources.

The riots have also inflicted heavy damages to gas stations, public transportation buses and some police stations. This has created long queues at the few opening and operational gas stations.

The government has cut off the internet on Wednesday and part of Thursday. Yesterday Sudan TV carried a message that a cyber blackout will be imposed from 12 am for the next 48 hours without explanation. However, internet access was severed for only part of the day.

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defect from Darfur JIBRIL FIGHTERS!!

There Were Many Reasons for Defecting from Jibreel Faction to Join Peace, Interview (2-2)


In the evening of April 2013, the leaders of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) signed Doha Document for Peace in Darfur after a more than 4-month-long negotiations with government in Khartoum. The leaders of the movement opted for negotiations out of convictions that there was no alternative to stability in the region except pursuing path of negotiations and peaceful means, through which the two signed were eventually able to come to an agreement that would accommodate all. Shortly after inking the agreement, the leaders of the movement were ambushed while on their way to Khartoum by rebel Justice and Equality Movement – Jibreel. The chairmen of JEM and his deputy Arco lost their lives in the incident, while 28 other leaders are still being held in custody. Nevertheless, JEM, which is signatory to the Doha agreement, has continued to pursue the path of peace to arrive in Khartoum late March to carry through its obligations with the government, transcending the great loss of its prominent leaders in the aforementioned attack by rival rebel movements. To shed lights on the thorny road the movement has walked in pursuit of peace and stability in Darfur, Sudan Vision below interviews, Nahar Osman Nahar, JEM's head of a vanguard delegation to Khartoum.

Q: Do you expect to demand top ministries like foreign?

A: The names of ministries are not a problem. We will reach agreement with partners in the government on that because there are many positions where we can serve since we signed the important agreement. What matters is we work at ministry fully satisfied as well as our partners on the other side. So far we have not settled on any ministerial portfolio, but we work where we can achieve something.

Q: What were contents and outcomes of your meetings with the government since your arrival in Khartoum? Who have you met?

A: We have held and still holding a number of meetings. We met with the Minister for Justice, Mohamed Bushara Dosa, ministers at Darfur Peace Bureau, the National Assembly, and National Unity Government Council. Meetings with many other ministers will continue to pave the way for the arrival of the Chairman of the movement and working for translating the agreement into actions; including discussing details and timetables. We regard all of our meetings positive and fruitful. Our visits were not exclusive to the governmental side, but we maintained communications with a number of Sudanese parties, civil society organizations, and national figures.

Q: When will your presidential delegation headed by the chairman of the movement, Dabajo arrive?

A: There are always new developments in politics at any moment; especially the chairman of the movement is currently present in the field undertaking his function, most lately retrieval of a vehicle belonging to the armed forces from outlaws. Generally, there are a number of points, which may expedite his arrival such as the general pardon granted to the forces of the movement in custody. A list including a great deal of political prisoners in Sudan was submitted.

Q: On what charges were those leaders thrown behind the bars? Were some of them accused of involvement in Omdurman attacks?

A: Part of was do with Omdurman incidents, while the other part was related to battles against the government. Some prisoners were charged with taking part in activities supporting Justice and Equality Movement against the government. A list containing their names was submitted as important preliminary step, which may accelerate the arrival of the chairman of the movement in Khartoum. He is expected to arrive within two weeks after progress was reached in some files, particularly general pardon.

Q: Does your visit to Darfur depend on their arrival in Khartoum?

A: Part of vanguard delegation will go Darfur to prepare for the arrival of chairman, who will tour Darfur states after his visit to Khartoum.

Q: Aren't concerned about his safety that he might be attacked by non-signatory movements?

A: What happened in the past was a group of armless persons assassinated in cold blood. They would have not be attacked should we had army; simply it is very easy to target the unarmed even in Khartoum. It was not a military battle at first place. What happen was a stab in the back and treachery.

Q: Would you please acquaint us with what happened exactly regarding the assassination key figures in your movement?

A: The incident could better be described as "awkward act", carried out in neighboring Chad in a bid to abort peaceful process in Darfur. A number of leaders were assassinated while some others were held in custody. We view such appalling attack as sacrifice for peace. We will stay the course for peace and follow their footsteps toward bringing peace to Darfur. We will never let their blood go in vain. We will continue to walk the same path until peace becomes a tangible reality on the ground.

Q: What efforts the movement has taken to liberate the detainees? Do you know their whereabouts?

A: Of course, according to our reliable source, we have accurate information about their whereabouts. Also, the movement has contacts with local, regional and international human rights organizations like the ICRC; in addition to communication with members of the Security Council, UNAMID. We levied a number of lawsuits at the level of Sudan with Darfur Crimes Tribunal. Furthermore, we are making additional efforts, which are off-record. We assure the families of the detainees, despite our reservation about the term "detainee" because detention is a result of a military battle, but what took place on that day was not a battle. Our losses were hostages not detainees. I am convinced that our efforts will yield fruits in releasing them through political, legal efforts, or else we will be compelled to set them free militarily.

Q: Are sure that all detainees are alive?

A: Of course, according to our information, the 28 detainees are still alive, but they are being treated indecently and harassment such as depriving them of food and calling their families.

Q: In case political efforts failed, would the movement resort to force to release them?

A: Our hostage brothers were taken away by force. We chased the kidnappers close to borders with South Sudan. We are prepared to engage in war with this terrorist group to free our hostages. This is a red line, and will not tolerate detention of signatories to peace endlessly. All remain options on the table.

Q: Do think that the government is required to demonstrate further goodwill in order to encourage the armed movement to join the peaceful process?

A: Certainly. For severally reasons including the Doha agreement should be more flexible. We believe that drafting good terms is crucial to peace – the reason why we signed the agreement. I expect more movements with sign it provided that some items related to those movements are taken into account and added as appendix. In this situation, the government can make the document desirable to groups willing to join it.

Q: Do you think that there are international forces preventing parties willing to join the Doha deal, especially the Darfur issue is being capitalized by exploiters.





A: many states that are in bad terms with the government are seeking to exploit the movements in their conflict with the government. When we were taking up arms against the government, we had the backing of the government of the slain leader Muamar Gaddafi and South Sudan. Some movements benefited from such situation materially, which is common in international politics.

Q: For how long will hear about continuous splintering within Darfur factions to join Doha negotiations in a new name, considering that signatory movements have now reached 20 factions?

A: The government has to be blamed for dividing these movements in the beginning in a bid to undermine them, but such strategy proved failure later. Movements carrying weight in Darfur don't exceed five movements including Justice and Equality Movement.

Q: Absence of security constitutes a major threat to peace in Darfur despite allocation of huge mounts of money earmarked for development. What is your message to movements mainly fighting for abolishing development projects in favor of the people of the region?

A: We, in Justice and Equality Movement, believe that peace is crucial to the return of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their homes of origin. We are working to restore security and order in regions of our control as well as contributing to restoring security in adjacent areas. We are working for that end in partnership with the government so that overall security prevails and developmental programs kick off, only then the refugees will voluntarily go back to their former homes.

Q: What do make the work of Darfur Crimes Attorney General?

A: We, in the agreement, called for not authorizing any tribunal in Darfur, save for Darfur Criminal Tribunal. Demanded all previously existing courts abolished; in addition setting up special police force to protect the Attorney, while UNAMID should oversee his work to assess performance. If that achieved, all results will be satisfactory to all parties. If the tribunal pursued fair justice course, many crimes committed in Darfur will be settled and justice will be administered for victims.

Q: Are you optimistic about peace in Darfur any sooner?

A: Peace can be achieved a step by step, which were started a long ago. We not claim that we are the only parties that will bring peace to Darfur, but we can reach that end when all join forces and demonstrate strong desire for stability and settlement across the region. Finally, I would like to stress that by signing the agreement we have taken the right political direction after a long consideration, we are seeking to transform into a political party when security arrangements are in place. Until then, we will gradually become a political body and will exercise politics in tandem with efforts to end the war by all means any ways. We have laid down our arms in full conviction of necessity for dialogue and involvement in building the country under mounting challenges our country is currently faced with. We have come to a conviction that democracy can only be reached through ballots.



By Hana Abdul Hai, 2 hours 21 minutes ago

Revolution.

Revolt in Sudan against cost of living.

Who built the Pyramids???

Visual Comparison between Sudanese and Egyptian Pyramids


The Egyptian "Al-Beit" magazine has compared Giza and Sudanese pyramids, arguing that Giza pyramids are the most ancient in history despite the difference in size and added that it was discovered that Mangra pyramid was far smaller than the two pyramids built for his father and grandfather.

According to the magazine, there are 300 pyramids in Sudan and 100 in Egypt but that the Giza pyramids are bigger than others. The magazine stated that, "If the king in the Pharaoh Age was mightier and luckier, a bigger pyramid would be built for him, which explains the big-sized pyramids of the 4th Egyptian Family, which erected Likhukhu, Khafraa and Mangara."

Jamal Nekroma, writer of the article, indicated that Sudan's pyramids differ in shape to the Egyptian ones, in being more upright which he attributed to the Sudanese weather in ancient times. He added that "North Sudan was more humid, in addition to heavy rains and floods. That is way the pyramids were designed in that fashion."

Sudanese pyramids are exclusively located in the Nubian region of Sudan, where a civilization similar to the Egyptian civilization had emerged, namely in the regions of Maroe and Nouri.

It is worth noting that diplomatic relations between ancient Egypt and Nuba, North Sudan dates back to 7000 years ago. The old Egypt relied on Nuba for irrigation, which confirms the pyramids connection to the Nile Valley.



By Staff Writer, 13 hours 19 minutes ago

How that song is real and acting for Bashir problems.

Bashir running from Abuja conferance :-

RUNNING AWAY
YOU HAVE DOEN SOMTHING WRONG
RUNNING AND RUNNING AWAY
YOU CAN NOT RUN FROM YOURSELF
BOB MARLEY

Giant Underground Blob of Magma Puzzles Scientists


The Afar Rift in Ethiopia is marked by enormous gashes that signal the breakup of the African continent and the beginnings of a new ocean basin, scientists think.

The fractures appear eerily similar to seafloor spreading centers, the volcanic ridges that mark the boundaries between two pieces of oceanic crust. Along the ridges, lava bubbles up and new crust is created, slowly widening the ocean basin.

But a look deep beneath the Afar Rift reveals the birth announcements may be premature. "It's not as close to fully formed seafloor spreading as we thought," said Kathy Whaler, a geophysicist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Whaler and her colleagues have spotted 120 cubic miles (500 cubic kilometers) of magma sitting in the mantle under the Afar Rift. Hot liquids like magma like to rise, so the discovery is a conundrum.

"We didn't expect this, because magma wants to pop up like a cork in water; it's too buoyant compared to the surrounding medium in the mantle," Whaler told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.

Models predict that at spreading ridges, magma should sit just under the rifts, in the crust. That's what geoscientists see in the oceans, at places like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Juan de Fuca Ridge. But not only is the giant pool at Afar extremely deep, but it is also mostly below the sleeping Badi volcano, many miles west of the scene of a 2005 series of underground magma intrusions, Whaler said.

"You just wouldn't expect to have a blob of magma still underneath this other area," Whaler said. "It's one of the things we're still having a lot of discussions about."

The findings, published Sept. 5 in the journal Nature Geoscience, add a new twist to the Afar Rift puzzle. Thanks to intense international attention — from scientists intrigued by the 2005 intrusions — the region is one of the best-studied spreading centers in the world. But a lively debate continues over whether the Afar Rift is a unique case or a textbook example of a fracturing continent.

Triple threat

The Afar region sits at the junction of three tectonic plates, all of which are spreading apart. Here, Earth's brittle crust fractures as the plates tear away from one another, but the mantle underneath adjusts by stretching like warm plastic. The mantle rocks rising beneath the thinning crust melt from lowered pressure, creating magma. [Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench]

In 2005, a series of earthquakes in Dabbahu, Ethiopia, announced the arrival of new magma squeezing into the crust. Vertical fingers of molten rock shot into underground fractures, 14 in all. The longest intrusion was about 26 feet (8 meters) wide and spread through 37 miles (60 km) of crust in just 10 days.



Whaler and her colleagues searched for the source of these vertical injections, called dikes, with instruments that measure changes in magnetic and electric fields in the Earth. Both are sensitive to underground liquids, which have a higher electrical conductivity than rock (meaning electrons have an easier time moving through them).

The team discovered the feeder for the magma intrusions: a shallow, small chamber directly under the dikes, about 4 miles (7 km) wide and 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 km) below the surface.

Rare reservoir

But in the mantle, the layer beneath Earth's crust, a huge 18-mile-wide (30 km) region of very high conductivity reaches down to a depth of 20 miles (35 km), well below the 12-mile-thick (20 km) crust. This giant magma zone isn't one big pool, but a series of interconnected pockets, scientists think.

The findings were bolstered by research in geochemistry, rock composition and seismology from other teams, Whaler said. "The results from standard electrical conductivity get a huge range, so the additional information gives additional bounds. I suspect nobody would have believed us without some supporting evidence from other techniques."

For example, a study published in the journal Nature on July 4 shows the mantle under the Afar region is about 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius) hotter than it should be. And although the crust is thinner than in other spots around the planet, it is actually thicker than models predict. [What is Earth Made Of?]

Questions remain

Taken together, the recent discoveries suggest researchers still don't understand how the final stages of breakup occur in continental crust, Whaler said.

"Most people have said we can look at the Afar Rift and it's a good on-land analogue of midocean ridges," she said. "But what this result says is, there is still quite a distinct difference between the crust and upper mantle beneath a fully formed spreading ridge and the Afar Rift."

For Roger Buck, a geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who was not involved in the study, the discovery raises questions about what controls the timing of magmatic activity such as dike intrusions.

"A commonly held view is that long, quiet periods occur because there is no magma available in the crust to trigger dike opening and volcanism at spreading centers," Buck wrote in an accompanying editorial published in Nature Geoscience. "However, the results ... bring into question this standard view. Instead, there may always be large quantities of magma available in the mantle and shallow crust at many spreading centers."



By LiveScience, 1 day 18 hours ago

COFEE MORHAKA AND FESTIVAL.

First coffe jet set as Sudanese
Second Grinding corps primitive Sudanese MORHAKA.

The Nuba.

Sulle tracce dell'antica Nubia


di Emilio Radice



Sudan. Piramidi, emozioni e scoperte nel deserto dei faraoni neri, in un Paese che custodisce millenni di storia

Contenuti correlati

LE IMMAGINI



Comunque sia, è bene armarsi di buon senso. Poi via, attraverso il deserto, in una dimensione che è di maggiore libertà, fino a raggiungere il Nilo fra la Terza e la Quarta Cataratta. Ed ecco Old Dongola, i bei palmeti sul fiume, i campi arati con i buoi, i villaggi con le porte decorate con mille colori, la gente gentile che accoglie i visitatori e offre il chai. Siamo nel cuore della Nubia, le radici africane dell'Egitto, dove i faraoni cercavano oro, schiavi e donne di bellezza leggendaria, belle tuttora. Alcune ti trafiggono gli occhi con lo sguardo, quasi sfacciate. Poi via, deserto ancora, cammelli, scorci d'un Nilo pre-moderno, con feluche e campi arati. Miraggi che tremolano di calore in lontananza.



Fino alla magia di Kerma, con le tombe incise di geroglifici sulle rocce a strapiombo in riva al fiume e il piccolo museo dei Sette Faraoni: trovati intatti in un buco di terra nel 2003 sono belli da mozzare il fiato. Ovvio, a questo punto, che ci siano anche le piramidi: sulla strada per Karima, a Nuri, nei pressi del grande tempio di Jebel Barkal, la "montagna sacra" dell'antico regno di Napata, patrimonio mondiale dell'Unesco. Poi, piegando verso sud, le tante aguzze piramidi della necropoli reale di Meroe, dove i re nubiani si rifugiarono per sfuggire all'avanzata degli Egizi.



Ma fra una pagina di storia e l'altra c'è la gente. Ed è in un piccolo punto del deserto di Bayuda che vorremmo concludere questo racconto del Sudan: il cratere di El Atrun, uno dei pochi posti al mondo dove si torna indietro di un paio di millenni. Ci si arriva attraverso piste sabbiose e capanne di pastori che sembrano nidi di uccello. Nel cratere ci si infila attraverso un bordo sbrecciato, ed è un incantesimo: sul fondo del vulcano una ventina di donne nomadi raccolgono da un pozzo acqua salmastra e la spargono in vasche di fango. Le loro vesti sono macchie di azzurro, di giallo, di verde. Tutto il resto è bruciato dal sole. Poi attendono che l'acqua evapori e loro, accosciate per ore, con le mani raschiano il sale fangoso, ne fanno sacchi che poi caricano su carovane di asini e cammelli. Tutto accade con un caldo soffocante, un caldo che non dà tregua. È così da millenni, salvo il fatto che ora c'è qualcuno che le osserva. Noi. (12 settembre 2013)

A good project

JICA Held a Lecture on History of Peace Building in Japan as a Follow-up Cooperation for the Training for Sudanese


On the 10th September, Japanese Professor Hideaki Shinoda from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies held a peace building lecture at University of Khartoum to strengthen the partner relation between Sudan and Japan on the process of nation building. Professor Shinoda’s visit stressed Japan’s commitment to providing Sudanese specialists with professional training and capacity development. His lecture highlighted the experience of Japan in peace building by using lessons tackling the problems of nation state building.



Every year since 2005, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) has accepted 236 Sudanese in total, in the last fiscal year 89 people from various fields, such as agriculture, water management and environment, and he sent them to Japan for specialist training. Trainees spent up to 5 months studying in Japan before returning to Sudan to share and put their skills into practice.



Professor Shinoda’s lecture was held as a part of a follow-up cooperation for the five participants of the training and the dialogue program ‘Development of Victim Assistance System for Victims of Wars and Armed Conflicts’. This lecture was opened to other specialists in peace building to share the knowledge widely.



Mr. Mozamil, a Sudanese participant to the JICA training who works in National Mine Action Center, said “This training and the discussing with other participants from various countries stimulated my motivation and helped me to gain knowledge for peace building. I would like to contribute to the comprehensive development involving the victims of the wars and spread the peace building process to the entire country.”



Professor Shinoda said “There are some similarities between Japanese and Sudanese history. Japan desired to make a nation state with long-term peace, and experienced a very difficult state building process until peace was achieved. I hope the introduction of the Japanese experience becomes an opportunity to stimulate Sudanese people’s ideas”.



By Press Release, 13 hours 21 minutes ago

South Sudan.

Publications: Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan


Histories written in the aftermath of empire have often featured conquerors and peasant rebels but have said little about the vast staffs of locally recruited clerks, technicians, teachers, and medics who made colonialism work day-to-day. Even as these workers maintained the colonial state, they dreamed of displacing imperial power. This book examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state.

Relying on a rich cache of Sudanese Arabic literary sources, including poetry, essays, and memoirs, as well as on colonial documents and photographs, this perceptive study examines colonialism from the viewpoint of those who lived and worked in its midst. By integrating the case of Sudan with material on other countries, particularly India, Sharkey gives her book broad comparative appeal. She shows that colonial legacies—such as inflexible borders, atomized multi-ethnic populations, and autocratic governing structures—have persisted, hobbling postcolonial nation-states. Thus countries like Sudan are still living with colonialism, struggling to achieve consensus and stability within borders that a fallen empire has left behind.



By The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 12 hours 10 minutes ago

History of Sudan...in photos.

Kitchener's policy and the post-war debate

It has been argued that "this was not a deliberately genocidal policy; rather it was the result of [a] disastrous lack of foresight and rank incompetence on [the] part of the [British] military."[53] British historian Niall Ferguson also argues that "Kitchener no more desired the deaths of women and children in the camps than of the wounded Dervishes after Omdurman, or of his own soldiers in the typhoid stricken hospitals of Bloemfontein."[54]





Lord Kitchener (pictured) was one of the most controversial British generals in the war. Kitchener took over control of British forces from Lord Roberts and was responsible for expanding the British response to the Boers guerrilla tactics.

However, to Kitchener and the British Command "the life or death of the 154,000 Boer and African civilians in the camps rated as an abysmally low priority" against military objectives. As the Fawcett Commission was delivering its recommendations, Kitchener wrote to St John Brodrick defending his policy of sweeps, and emphasising that no new Boer families were being brought in unless they were in danger of starving. This was disingenuous as the countryside had by then been devastated under the "Scorched Earth" policy (the Fawcett Commission in December 1901 in its recommendations commented that: "to turn 100,000 people now being held in the concentration camps out on the veldt to take care of themselves would be cruelty") and now that the New Model counter insurgency tactics were in full swing, it made cynical military sense to leave the Boer families in desperate conditions in the countryside.

According to writer S.B. Spies, "at [the Vereeniging negotiations in May, 1902] Boer leader Louis Botha stated that he had tried to send [Boer] families to the British, but they had refused to receive them." Spies quotes a Boer commandant referring to Boer women and children made refugees by Britain's scorched-earth policy as saying, "Our families are in a pitiable condition and the enemy uses those families to force us to surrender." Spies adds, "and there is little doubt that that was indeed the intention of Kitchener when he had issued instructions that no more families were to be brought into the concentration camps." Thomas Pakenham writes of Kitchener's policy U-turn,

No doubt the continued 'hullabaloo' at the death-rate in these concentration camps, and Milner's belated agreement to take over their administration, helped change Kitchener's mind [some time at the end of 1901]. ... By mid-December at any rate, Kitchener was already circulating all column commanders with instructions not to bring in women and children when they cleared the country, but to leave them with the guerrillas. ... Viewed as a gesture to Liberals, on the eve of the new session of Parliament at Westminster, it was a shrewd political move. It also made excellent military sense, as it greatly handicapped the guerrillas, now that the drives were in full swing. ... It was effective precisely because, contrary to the Liberals' convictions, it was less humane than bringing them into camps, though this was of no great concern to Kitchener.

Amira Osman ....

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Matrimone ... Matrimonio.

Why Against and not for the matrimon of foriegners. Matrimonio Misto, ora parlano contro, ma volevo dire la mia il matrimonio e una cosa molto privata e non e soggetta a giudizio di nessuno USCIAMO FORI DI QUESTO ARGOMENTO…………………io stesso sposato e ora separato ma una faccenda privata ma molto privata ……………………………….azim Arabic to Italian translation Show romanization Sudan, in particolare: il fenomeno della diffusione degli Esteri sudanese matrimonio in modo allarmante Il numero di letture di questo argomento è di leggere 4.883 Emerse nella comunità sudanese a sposare recente fenomeno straniero / H, e diffondere in modo chiaro e tutto a lui i pro ei contro, ma gli svantaggi di più, tra cui l'instabilità in un luogo particolare, in modo che siano tra i due paesi, che riguarda il rapporto prezioso figlio della mescolanza di religioni .. Il tasso di successo di questi matrimoni sono spesso finiscono con un divorzio deboli. Nella ricerca di questo fenomeno è giunto alla leggendaria strada e il risultato è stato il seguente: * Abdel-Qader Ali, un dipendente detto all'inizio del suo discorso è un diffuso fenomeno della comunità sudanese modo rapido e chiaro, e ho l'instabilità, perché il marito o la moglie entrambi vogliono stabilirsi nel suo paese, e questo risultato cosa in instabilità dei bambini psicologicamente a causa delle diverse religioni e tradizioni della società ognuno di loro .. Io non supportano un tale matrimonio. * Abdul Aziz ha dichiarato che non supportava il matrimonio di stranieri a causa di instabilità e di diverse religioni e costumi e tradizioni diverse, e penso che quando la ragazza si sposa uno straniero è visto sembra così Asthtarip. * E Ibrahim Abdel Fattah, ha iniziato il suo discorso con un sorriso che il fenomeno del matrimonio per gli stranieri diffondersi in una sovrapposizione chiara e veloce, e io sono sposato con gli stranieri, perché aiuta a identificare tra i popoli. * E Atef ha iniziato il suo discorso che questo fenomeno si è diffuso in modo chiaro e rapido nella società sudanese, e io non condivido l'instabilità del tasso di matrimonio e le differenze di costumi, tradizioni e religioni, e colpisce i bambini in modo chiaro e spesso finiscono con un divorzio. * E durante l'era di Mohammed Ali, all'inizio del suo matrimonio con gli stranieri, che rovinato un sacco di negativi per l'instabilità nella comunità sudanese sono chiare, e potrebbero non riuscire per mancanza di compatibilità per i costumi e le tradizioni, perché le tradizioni di ogni società è diversa da tradizioni di altre società. La maggior parte di questi matrimoni finiscono col divorzio viene quindi qualsiasi persona scegliere il suo partner specifiche tradizioni e le usanze del suo paese. * Avviato un fontane ricercatore sociale del bene La sua potrebbe essere una datazione nella terra di esilio, o tramite Internet può ottenere l'instabilità, perché il marito di essere vuole la stabilità nel suo paese e che possono causare la psicologia male minore e spesso fine a questo tasso di divorzio il matrimonio delle usanze e tradizioni diverse e religioni, inoltre confermato che i costumi e le tradizioni dei paesi stranieri differiscono dai costumi e le tradizioni degli Stati arabi e orientali uomo per natura, lo fa in dogana non Isthml tale e tradizioni. Ha anche spiegato che il matrimonio della ragazza straniera di arabo è il tipo più pericoloso del matrimonio e dimostrato che il tasso di successo di questi matrimoni è molto basso tasso di fallimento e di circa il 75%, che riguarda la psicologia dei bambini a causa di instabilità. السودان خاصة: ظاهرة زواج السودانين من الأجانب انتشرت بصورة مخي ظهرت في المجتمع السوداني في الآونة الأخيرة ظاهرة الزواج من الاجنبي/ة، وانتشرت بصورة واضحة واي شئ له سلبيات وايجابيات، ولكن سلبياته اكثر ومنها عدم الاستقرار في مكان معين بحيث يكونوا بين البلدين وهو يؤثر على نفيسة الطفل نسبة لاختلاط الديانات.. ونسبة نجاح هذا الزواج ضعيفة غالبا ما تنتهي بالطلاق.وفي اطار بحث هذه الظاهرة خرجت الاسطورة إلى الشارع العام وكانت الحصيلة كالآتي:* عبد القادر علي، وهو موظف قال في مطلع حديثه انها ظاهرة انتشرت في المجتمع السوادني بسرعة وبصورة واضحة، ولقد يكون فيه عدم استقرار لأن الزوج أو الزوجة كل منهما يريد ان يستقر في بلده وهذه الشئ ينتج عنه عدم استقرار الاطفال نفسيا نسبة لاختلاف الاديان وتقاليد المجتمع لكل منهما.. وانا لا اؤيد مثل هذا الزواج. * أما عبد العزيز فقد ذكر أنه لا يؤيد الزواج من الاجانب نسبة لعدم الاستقرار واختلاف الديانات واختلاف العادات والتقاليد، وانا ارى ان الفتاة عندما تتزوج من اجنبي ينظر اليها نظرة استهتارية.* وبدأ إبراهيم عبد الفتاح حديثه وهو يبتسم ان ظاهرة الزواج من الاجانب انتشرت بصورة واضحة وبسرعة، وانا مع الزواج من الاجانب لانها يساعد في التداخل والتعرف بين الشعوب.* واستهل عاطف حديثه ان هذه الظاهرة انتشرت بصورة واضحة وبسرعة في المجتمع السوداني، وانا لا اؤيد هذا الزواج نسبة إلى عدم الاستقرار واختلاف العادات والتقاليد والاديان وهو يؤثر على الاطفال بصورة واضحة وغالبا ما ينتهي بالطلاق.* وابان محمد علي في مطلع حديثه ان زواج الاجانب فيه الكثير من السلبيات مدللا بعدم الاستقرار في المجتمع السوداني بصورة واضحة، وقد لا ينجح لعدم التوافق في الاعراف والتقاليد لان تقاليد اي مجتمع تختلف عن تقاليد مجتمع آخر. واغلب هذا الزواج ينتهي بالطلاق لذلك يجب على اي شخص اختيار شريك حياته بمواصفات تقاليد واعراف بلاده.* استهلت الباحثة الاجتماعية مناهل الرشيد حديثها قائلة يمكن ان يكون التعارف في بلاد الغربة أو عن طريق شبكة الانترنت وقد يحصل عدم استقرار لأن الزوج يكون يريد الاستقرار في بلاده وذلك قد يتسبب في سوء نفسية الطفل وغالباً ما ينتهي هذا الزواج بالطلاق نسبة لاختلاف الاعراف والتقاليد والديانات، كما أكدت ان عادات وتقاليد الدول الاجنبية تختلف عن عادات وتقاليد الدول العربية وبطبعه الرجل الشرقي فهو لا يستحمل هذه العادات والتقاليد.كما اوضحت ان زواج الفتاة العربية من اجنبي هو اخطر نوع من انواع الزواج وابانت ان نسبة نجاح هذا الزواج ضئيلة جدا ونسبة الفشل قرابة 75% وهو يؤثر في نفسية الاطفال نسبة لعدم الاستقرار. Arabic to English translationShow romanization Sudan, especially: the phenomenon of marriage Sudanese foreign spread alarmingly The number of readings of this subject is to read 4883 Emerged in the Sudanese community in recent phenomenon marry foreign / H, and spread in a clear and anything to him the pros and cons, but the disadvantages more, including instability in a particular place so that they are between the two countries, which affects the precious child ratio of the mixture of religions .. The success rate of such marriages are often weak end in divorce. In research of this phenomenon came to the legendary street and outcome was as follows: * Abdel-Qader Ali, an officer said at the beginning of his talk is a phenomenon spread in the community Sudanese quickly and clearly, and I have the instability, because the husband or wife both want to settle in his country and this thing result in instability of children psychologically because of the different religions and traditions of society each of them .. I do not support such a marriage. * Abdul Aziz has stated that he did not support the marriage of foreigners because of instability and different religions and different customs and traditions, and I think that when the girl marries a foreigner is seen look so Asthtarip. * And Ibrahim Abdel Fattah, started his speech with a smile that the phenomenon of marriage to foreigners spread in a clear and fast, and I am married with foreigners, because it helps to identify overlap between peoples. * And Atef began his talk that this phenomenon has spread in a clear and rapidly in Sudanese society, and I do not support the marriage rate instability and differences in customs, traditions and religions, and it affects the children in a clear and often end in divorce. * And during the era of Mohammed Ali at the beginning of his marriage to foreigners, which spoiled a lot of negatives to the instability in the Sudanese community are clear, and may not succeed for lack of compatibility in the customs and traditions, because traditions of any society is different from the traditions of other societies. Most of these marriages end in divorce so should any person choose his partner specifications traditions and customs of his country. * Initiated a social researcher fountains of good Her could be a dating in the land of exile, or via the Internet may obtain the instability, because the husband to be wants stability in his country and that may cause ill child psychology and often end this marriage divorce rate of the different customs and traditions and religions, also confirmed that the customs and traditions of foreign countries differ from the customs and traditions of Arab States and Eastern man by nature, he does not Isthml such customs and traditions. Also explained that the marriage of the girl of Arab foreign is the most dangerous type of marriage and demonstrated that the success rate of such marriages is very low failure rate and about 75%, which affects the psychology of children because of instability.