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International Dialogue on State-building and National Development in South Sudan

Posted by TheBlackList on September 26, 2011 at 6:00pm

International Dialogue on State-building and National Development in South Sudan

Convened by the African Research and Resources Forum (ARRF) and the Centre for Peace and Development Studies (CPDS) at the University of Juba, Juba, South Sudan

September 23- 23, 2011

Foreign policy options for the Government of South Sudan post self-government.

ABSTRACT

There is a tendency in Sudan studies especially in the South, to see issues exclusively from the internal perspective, which is understandab

Carrying a Bible is a heinous crime in Al-Bashir’s Sudan

Posted by TheBlackList on May 17, 2011 at 9:00pm

By: Abdullahi Osman El-Tom

For most people in the world, to be photographed carrying a bible is harmless and cannot be elevated to a noticeable event. No so in Al-Bashir’s Sudan. This is the story of Hawa Abdalla, an ordinary Darfuri woman activist, working in the IDP camp of Abushouk, Darfur, where she is employed as a civilian member of UNAMID peace-keeping authority. In May 8th, 11, the infamous government Sudan Media Centre (SMC), otherwise known as Sudan’s intelligence mouth, published

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THE AFRO-ARAB BORDERLANDS – AMBIGUOUS RELATIONS IN THE SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA

Posted by BF Bankie on April 19, 2009 at 5:30pm

BF BANKIE:‘ There are sizeable Black African populations in south Libya, northern Chad and south Algeria – but less in the latter. I can hardly see any African-Arab Borderlands in 100-500-1000 years. The African people will be freed and taking a lead, turning the tables on the oppressors’. Garba Diallo –Mauritanian‘Chad is a Black nation with a minority of Arabs in the northern and eastern parts of the country. Yes, southern Libya and Algeria are Black countries with millions of invisible oppres

UNDERSTANDING THE SUDAN - Understanding Museveni, An Unusual African

Posted by KWASI Akyeampong on March 23, 2009 at 9:00am

Dear Kwasi Greetings Trusting this finds you in good spirits. Few Africans, outside of east Africa have much understanding of the Sudan issues. I met last week the Special Advisor to the Namibia Foreign Minister/President, to discuss Sudan. I noted that his was the standard OAU/AU view, which is determined by the geo-political considerations of east Africa. He knew little, nor cared much in my view, about the situation of Darfurians, yet he partook in the Abuja Talks on peace for Darfur. It

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The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

Posted by BF Bankie on March 14, 2009 at 9:03pm

BF BANKIE:There were two main migrations out of Africa. There was the first exodus of the original man ( Homo sapiens sapiens ), who was black and who settled all over the world. The next migration out of Africa was forced by slavery. Although the western Diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe is known, the eastern Diaspora, which preceded the western Diaspora by a millennium, is not generally known. The African eastern Diaspora is found wherever Africans were taken in Caucasia and T

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South Sudan – the last state in Africa to obtain, in 2011, Independence ?

Posted by BF Bankie on March 12, 2009 at 11:49pm

BF BANKIE:Lt Gen Joseph Lagu (Rtd), who led the Anya-nya, the freedom fighters of South Sudan, in their fight against the Arab-led Khartoum government, in the first stage, which ran from 1955 to 1972, of the recent phase of the armed struggle , from 1983 to 2005, states in his book ‘ Sudan – Odyssey through a state – From ruin to hope’, quoting from The Anya-nya Manifesto, on family and ethnicity, as follows :-The enemy is waging a war of annihilation against us; he wantsto destroy us completely

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The root causes of the war in South Sudan and the Anya-nya armed struggle

Posted by BF Bankie on March 12, 2009 at 12:21pm

Many find it difficult to accept the root causes of the last phase of the protracted war in South Sudan , which ran from 1955 to 1972 and from 1983 to 2005. In order to establish the causes, the book of Lt Gen Joseph Lagu (Rtd), entitled ‘Sudan – Odyssey through a state – From ruin to hope’ is drawn upon. The key to understanding Afro-Arab relations, past and present and the relevance of South Sudan is found in the reasons for the conflict.Lagu, who is alive and well, spending a good part of his

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THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

Posted by BF Bankie on February 28, 2009 at 12:00am

B.F. BANKIE:Due to its denigration of African culture Arabia, since it’s incursion into Africa, has seen the continent as a civilization vacuum waiting to be filled by Arab culture and Islam.The painful fact is that it was only with the initiation of the current peace process between Khartoum, in central Sudan and Juba in south Sudan and the international focus on the genocide in Darfur, that it became apparent to the public at large, that from Mauritania on the Atlantic coast, moving eastwards

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The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

Posted by BF Bankie on February 27, 2009 at 8:57am

B.F. BANKIE:There were two main migrations out of Africa. There was the first exodus of the original man ( Homo sapiens sapiens ), who was black and who settled all over the world. The next migration out of Africa was forced by slavery. Although the western Diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe is known, the eastern Diaspora, which preceded the western Diaspora by a millennium, is not generally known. The African eastern Diaspora is found wherever Africans were taken in Caucasia and

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The experience of Africans under Arab colonialism and its antithesis

Posted by BF Bankie on November 24, 2008 at 9:51am

A synopsis of the paper- ‘The experience of Africans under Arab colonialism and its antithesis’, delivered at the International Colloquium at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11-13 November 2008, on the theme, ‘Teaching and propagating African history and culture to the Diaspora and …’The key to understanding Afro-Arab relations, past and present and the relevance of South Sudan to the future, is found in the reasons for the conflict in South Sudan of 1955-72 and 1983- 2005. The C

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Nubian Dams, Demographic Engineering and the Deteriorating Situation in Northern Sudan

Posted by BF Bankie on October 1, 2008 at 12:30am

Solicitors International Human Rights GroupA LectureThe Dam Building in Northern Sudan: is it a Tool for the Resettlement of Millions of Egyptian Peasants? Is it a New Darfur Scenario in the Making?By: M. Jalal HashimPlace: BPP School of Law, London, Red Lion Street, WC1Time: Wednesday 24.9.2008 18:00IntroductionIn this lecture (which is adapted from Hashim, 2006) I will try to discuss the deteriorating situation in northern Sudan that has resulted from the policies of demographic engineering im

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DUDLEY THOMPSON - The Charges

Posted by BF Bankie on August 31, 2008 at 3:25pm

Thank you for your mail and for agreeing to step-down as Chairperson of the Honorary Board and agreeing, as Kola says, ‘to remain on Board’, by being a member of the Honorary Board of the Sudan Sensitization Peace Project (SSPP)That said and to reverse the order of proceedings, I come to the ‘Charges’ as you call them. Please do not take these questions personally. We are all in a learning curve, with some more advanced in their knowledge of Afro-Arab relations than others. The fact that these i

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Fall-out from the ICC writ against President Bashir of Sudan

Posted by BF Bankie on July 28, 2008 at 11:25pm

FALL – OUT FROM THE WRIT ISSUEIt is now possible to evaluate the repercussions from the announcement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of its intentions to seek to issue a Writ against the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al Bashir and others. After the news was released Khartoum immediate reaction was the issue of threats of dire consequences for Darfur, the Comprehensive Peace Ageement (CPA) etc. The landing rights for UN flights into Khartoum were suspended with humanitarian consequenc

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International Dialogue on State-building and National Development in South Sudan

Carrying a Bible is a heinous crime in Al-Bashir’s Sudan

THE AFRO-ARAB BORDERLANDS – AMBIGUOUS RELATIONS IN THE SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA

UNDERSTANDING THE SUDAN - Understanding Museveni, An Unusual African

The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

South Sudan – the last state in Africa to obtain, in 2011, Independence ?

The root causes of the war in South Sudan and the Anya-nya armed struggle

THE AFRO-ARAB CIVILISATION DIALOGUE

The genocide in South Sudan and Darfur and its implications

The experience of Africans under Arab colonialism and its antithesis

Nubian Dams, Demographic Engineering and the Deteriorating Situation in Northern Sudan

DUDLEY THOMPSON - The Charges

Fall-out from the ICC writ against President Bashir of Sudan

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