Luke Kuth Dak:JAN. 27/2009, SSN; Most Sudanese people do not share Dr. Nafia Ali Nafia’s arrogant view that the embattled President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Basher, is the most qualified man to rule the Sudan, a country with over 40 million folks.A quick look at his file tells us that nothing could be further from the truth that the claim by the his extremist followers has no chance to hold up it’s ground. After all, the man has no college education, and only a modest military training. Th
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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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ANNE US VISIT FETCHES US$40 millionby Opoka Christopher Amanjur,extract from page 9 of The Juba Post, 18-23 September 2008, Juba, South SudanThe American government has donated 40 million dollars to meet the requirements for conducting a successful election next year. Dr Anne It to explained that the money is to be channeled through credible organizations and other United Nations agencies.‘The Bush administration will hand over Southern Sudan to the next government as they found it, and we appre
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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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A CASE FOR AN INDEPENDENT TRIBUNAL FOR FINAL RECONCILIATION-Government of South Sudan (GOSS) rubs salt in 1992 scars - by Opoka Christopher Amanjur.Page 8, Juba Post, http://www.k2-media.org/jubapost/go/index.phpJuba, South Sudan, 3-7 July 2008A failure on the part of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) has cast further doubt as to the legacy if the victims of the 1992 slaughters of innocent officers of the Prisons, Wild Life, Police and Army
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FROM THE BORDERLANDS: Nkrumah and continentalismextract from The Citizen published 27th May 2008 in Khatoum and JubaOne of the persons who influenced the generation of leaders who lead their countries once self government was obtained, was Nmadi Azikiwe, who later became President of Nigeria. From 1925 to 1934 Azikiwe was a student and teacher at African American colleges and Universities in the USA, during which time he absorbed the anti-racist African American tradition.From 1934-7 Azikiwe was
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FROM THE BORDERLANDS:Africa unity or unity of Africansby B.F. BankieHaiti provides a classic study in the use of race as a social determinant in the 1600s. The large plantations were owned by ‘grand blancs’ - that is by Whites. Below them were the ‘petit blancs’ – those were White clerks and artisans. Then came the mulattos/coloureds, some of whom were better-off that the ‘petit blancs’, but they had no political rights. Further down the social scale were the Black former slaves, now freed Black
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UNITY MPs QUIT SPLM POLLSby Mayen Benson,cover page of The Citizen,Khartoum/Juba, Wednesday,30th April 2008Key political players in Unity State walked out during a historic formation of the SPLM State Congress, a top official has said.The boycott was to protest the Govenor’s decision ordering Sudan Peoples Liberation Army(SPLA) forces to surrender Karasana and Aliny (Higlig ) areas to Arab Meseriya after a tortuous meeting with Southern Sudan authorities on Monday.Mabek Lang, the Commissioner of
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