Monday, November 16, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Wounded Sudan.
Lwandamina wary of wounded Sudan
George Lwandamina is wary of a wounded Sudan in this Sunday’s home leg of their 2018 World Cup second round, final leg qualifier.
Zambia host Sudan at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola armed with a 1-0 away first leg win picked up on November 11 in Karima.
The victory was picked up in harsh conditions on a dusty patch at Karima Stadium located 400 kilometers north of Khartoum.
“This is different game all together. What is important is to bury what is now history and focus on the next game,” Lwandamina said.
“It won’t be easy, they (Sudan) are wounded and we have to approach it with the seriousness it deserves.”
Meanwhile, Zambia returned home from Sudan on Friday afternoon on the same scheduled flight as their opponents Sudan from Khartoum to Ndola via Addis Ababa.
The Sudanese were first to disembark at Ndola Airport and went through their entry formalities followed by the hosts.
Zambia later held its first training session back home late Friday afternoon at the match venue while Sudan practiced up the road at Arthur Davies Stadium in Kitwe.
Chipolopolo only need a draw this Sunday at home to eliminate Sudan and advance to the final group qualifying stage to commence in 2016.
Twenty teams will contest for Africa’s five slots at that stage on the final route to the 2018 finals in Moscow.
Money to stop migration to rich countries.
Giving money to Eritrea and Sudan to stop refugees is almost satire
Offering
financial incentives to repressive governments shows deeply flawed
logic that ignores the reasons people flee from home
A
migrant waits to disembark in Sicilian harbour of Messina, Italy.
Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/Reuters
Friday
13 November 2015
African
governments have been offered €1.8bn to
help stem the flow of refugees to Europe. Yet the migrants European
leaders want to “send back” are in many cases fleeing the
governments the EU is now collaborating with.
It
could almost be satire. Amongst
those present at
the Malta summit in Valletta were Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia –
widely condemned for their disregard of human rights.
In
Sudan, for example, according to the High
Commission for Refugees there
are 400,000 internally displaced people in Darfur, thanks
to continued
conflictbetween
rebel groups and government forces. A further 6.9 million people are
in need for humanitarian assistance. By the end of 2015, the UN
estimates there could be up to 460,000 refugees in Sudan alone.
Can $2bn for Africa stem the refugee crisis?
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For
many in Sudan, smuggling and trafficking has become a lucrative
business. Reliable sources in the country allege that many National
Intelligence and Security Service officers have been involved in
human smuggling for financial gain. The security force are also
alleged to be involved in trafficking operations in eastern Sudan and
Darfur, transporting refugees up in to Libya.
Amnesty
International was quick to point
out these contradictions,
arguing that the EU should not cooperate with those guilty of grave
human rights abuses. “With the EU seemingly intent on enlisting
African nations as proxy gatekeepers, the Valetta summit is likely to
result in a one-sided border control contract dressed up as a
cooperation agreement. Refugees and migrants deserve and are entitled
to better,” said Iverna McGowan, acting director of Amnesty
International’s European Institutions Office.
To
date, there has been no evidence that the EU’s previous financial
incentives to Omar al-Bashir’s government have made any positive
impact on the crisis, so why will they now?
In
November last year, the EU launched another controversial policy,
known as the Khartoum
Process.
Announced in Rome, it pledged to tackle human smuggling from the Horn
of Africa into Europe by providing countries in the region with
financial, technical and political incentives to manage and control
migration.
As
part of this, the EU pledged to offer Sudan and Eritrea significant
payments. However, in the absence of monitoring mechanisms and
transparency, these funds will likely disappear without trace,
swallowed by two government who are currently under international
sanctions for
human rights abuses.
Europe's €1.8bn fund to tackle migration crisis not enough, say Africans
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Writing
in African Arguments,
migration researchers Maimuna Mohamud and Cindy Horst said the
Khartoum Process represented a “worrying precedent”.
“All
participants of the Khartoum Process ... have policies and political
systems that directly render them responsible for creating conditions
that produce refugees and migrants in the first place,” they
argued.
Last
month, Mike
Smith, chair of the commission of
inquiry on human rights in Eritrea, emphasised the significant number
of Eritreans arriving on the shores of Europe: after Syrians and
Afghans, they made up the third biggest group of people attempting to
enter in 2014.
But
EU leaders seem to be turning a blind eye to this, once again turning
to cash incentives as quick fixes.
For
a meaningful solution to the problem, the EU should be forcing the
issue of conflict in Darfur, or pressurising Isaias Afwerki’s
government to end indefinite military service in Eritrea.
Only this way will the root of the problem be addressed.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Sudan news.
Sudanese media awash with presidential pardon for the rebels
Sudanese
newspapers on Wednesday focused on a presidential decree issued on
Tuesday by President Omar al Bashir granting pardon to the rebels to
allow them participate in the national dialogue due to take place in
Khartoum in October.
Sudan Tribune (English) newspaper said that President al-Bashir Tuesday has pardoned rebel leaders who are to participate in the national dialogue conference, and declared a two-month ceasefire in the war areas.
Sudan Tribune (English) newspaper said that President al-Bashir Tuesday has pardoned rebel leaders who are to participate in the national dialogue conference, and declared a two-month ceasefire in the war areas.
According
to the official news agency (SUNA) Tuesday, Bashir issued a
republican decree granting general amnesty for the leaders and
members of the armed movements taking part in the national dialogue
conference. Also, he issued another decree declaring a two-month
ceasefire in the conflict areas.
The
national dialogue conference is scheduled for 20 October 2015.
Several
rebels and their leaders including the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/North (SPLM-N) chairman Malik Agar and secretary-general
Yasser Arman had been sentenced to death by Sudanese courts.
The
two decrees come after a pledge al-Bashir made during the opening
session of the national dialogue’s general assembly last August in
which he expressed readiness to declare a two-month ceasefire in
order to hold the dialogue in a healthy atmosphere.
The
Sudanese army has been fighting SPLM-N rebels in South Kordofan and
Blue Nile states since 2011 and the armed movements in Darfur since
2003.
Bashir
launched the national dialogue initiative in January 2014 but the
process suffered major setbacks after the withdrawal of the
opposition National Umma Party (NUP) and the non-participation of the
rebels as well as leftist forces.
Sudan
Vision (English) newspaper has also reported that President Al-Bashir
has officially announced a general amnesty for the Sudanese rebels to
allow them to participate in the dialogue to solve the Sudanese
crisis including the stoppage of the continuous civil war in Darfur,
South Kordoafn and Blue Nile states.
It
is the second time Bashir is announcing a general pardon for the
rebels after the general amnesty he offered last May when he won the
elections boycotted by the civil opposition and the rebels.
The
paper said that President Bashir has issued a presidential decree
that declares a general amnesty for the leaders and members of the
Sudanese armed groups that participate in the national dialogue on
Tuesday.
Alsudani
(Arabic) newspaper stated that the president also issued another
ceasefire decree for two months in the conflict areas in Sudan. He
did not mention at what time this ceasefire would come into effect.
It
is the second time that Al Bashir has declared a two-month cessation
of hostilities in the country. Rebel movements under the banner of
the Sudan Revolutionary Front also announced their readiness to sign
a six-month ceasefire with the government forces and allied
militias.
Neither party has thus far suggested when and where to hold their negotiations about the implementation and monitoring of the ceasefire.
Neither party has thus far suggested when and where to hold their negotiations about the implementation and monitoring of the ceasefire.
The
rebels have decried that the national army is still violating the
ceasefire despite President Bashir’s declaration.
However,
Hurriyat (Arabic) newspaper has quoted the rebel alliance of the
Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) as refusing the presidential
offer, describing it as “Political propaganda”. It quoted the SRF
chairman Malik Agar as rejecting the offer. Agar said that the
current amnesty is concerning the parties who have already agreed to
participate in the dialogue inside Sudan.
“We
have nothing to do with this offer it is just for ‘Political
propaganda’. We call on the government to be serious and come to
the pre-dialogue meeting in Addis Ababa according to the AU roadmap,”
he stressed.
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09-03-2015 10:49 AM
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* في الوقت الذي تم في السنوات الأولى إعدام مواطنين سودانيين في عملات أجنبية هي نتاج كد أهلهم وثمرة كفاحهم.. وُجدت داخل خزائن منازلهم.. كما تم إعدام شهداء رمضان من العسكريين بتهمة الاشتراك في محاولة انقلابية.. ليلة العيد.. والسنوات تمر وتنهار بنيات الدولة الإسلامية.. التي حمتها السنين الطوال من الفاقة والفقر.. مشروع الجزيرة.. السكة الحديد.. النقل النهري.. النقل البحري.. سودانير.. المخازن والمهمات.. النقل الميكانيكي.. وقبل كل هذا.. الكفاءة والخبرة السودانية التي ذهبت إلى الصالح العام.. أو الشارع العام.. وما ترتب على ذلك الكثير من المآسي الاجتماعية..!!* القبضة الجديدة تشتد.. ويسقط الضحايا في بورتسودان.. وكجبار.. وتهون النفس والأرض على الأهل في الشمال.. تعويضات مروي.. واعتصام المناصير.. والحقوق المهدرة.. والنيران تشتعل في دارفور.. وجنوب كردفان.. والنيل الأزرق.. وقلق في الشرق.. وأكثر منه قلقاً في الشمال البعيد.. الذي كان هادئاً.. ووادعاً.. ومسالماً..؟!!
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*ينقذون من؟.. من؟!.. من؟.. (نعم) لقد أفلحوا في إنقاذ أنفسهم (جداً) من أيام الجوع والمسغبة.. والمعيشة في الشوارع الخلفية للمدن والدساكر البعيدة.. وتغير الحال العام والخاص.. والأكثر خصوصية.. وبعد أن تمكنوا جيداً من مفاصل الدولة سلطة وثروة.. تفرغوا تماماً لمشاريعهم الخاصة.. دون النظر إلى حال وبؤس شعبهم.. وبعد ذلك يتكلمون عن المشروع الحضاري.. وأنهم رسل العناية الإلهية اللأرض
*الإنقاذ.. ماذا تريد من شعبها بعد كل ذلك؟ ..(حوار)؟ .. لماذا ومع من ؟ هل لتقاسم السلطة .. والثروة ومع من؟ .. وهل الحركات المسلحة تريد فعلاً الحضور والمشاركة؟ وهل حضورها من أجل أهلهم.. وأهلنا في دارفور؟ أم أن الأمر برمته لا يخلو من (حركات) مثلما حصل في فندق السلام (روتانا) ما بين جماعة السيسي.. وجماعة أبو قردة.. وهل ما حصل تقاسم أدوار.. أم من أجل أموال؟.. وأمام عدد من الدبلوماسيين الأجانب؟!!
*بصراحة.. الإنقاذ هذه.. اكتفت وأعطت كل ما عندها؟! بدليل أن منسوبيها من الكبار تجولوا في ردهات السلطة ومكاتبها ودورها.. أكثر من ربع قرن.. الكثيرون منهم قادونا من فشل إلى آخر.. انعكس كمثال واضح في تردي خدمات ولاية كبرى كالخرطوم.. يحاول واليها الجديد أن يفعل شيئاً؟!
*رغم أن (الحتات) كلها باعوها.. أو كما قال؟!!
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