Real Madrid will play for a draw against Barcelona, says Schuster

Goal.com, 20 April, By Luis Mira

Former Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster believes that the capital city side will take a defensive approach in Saturday’s Clasico at Barcelona.
Los Blancos head into the crunch clash against their Catalan rivals four points clear at the top of the Liga standings, and Schuster believes it will be Pep Guardiola’s side who will need to force the issue.

“Barça and Madrid reach this stage tired, which is normal,” Schuster told COM Radio. “A draw will [...]

Central Bank of Sudan announces new measures on inflation and exchange rate

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Badr-Eldin Mahmoud said the Bank has taken urgent measures in areas of monetary and foreign sector policies to control the rates of inflation and to keep the stability of the exchange rate.
He explained that the Bank has changed the rate of legal monetary reserves from 13% to 15% for absorbing the liquidity and that the Central Bank will also take further procedures in the framework of [...]

President Al-Bashir Appreciates Progress of Relations between Sudan and Qatar

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, has appreciates progress of the relations and cooperation between Sudan and sister Qatar in all fields for the interest of the two peoples.
This came when received Wednesday a written message from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, which was handed to him by the Ambassador of Qatar to Sudan, Rashid Abdul-Rahman Al-Nuaimi.
President Al-Bashir expressed his appreciation of the concern of the Qatari Emir, [...]

AL Sisi Back Home from Addis Ababa

Gms: Khartoum, Smc, 20 April

Chairman of Darfur regional authority AL Tigani AL Sisi is supposed to have retuned home from Ethiopia after a short visit on a mission to Addis Ababa, reported local media on Tuesday quoting regional authority minister of information and culture Ibrahim Mahmoud Madibou. The minister stated that AL Sisi did no defect to Ethiopia angrily as alleged by some media reports. He said the regional authority chairman in fact visited Ethiopia on a mission.

President Al-Bashir: Sudanese People will Hear Good News on Higlig

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

President of the Republic and Chairman of the National Congress, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, pointed out that the insistence of the ruling People’s Movement in South Sudan to implement foreign agenda necessitates that Sudan shall work to confront any aggression from South Sudan State, for overthrowing the government in Khartoum, by carrying out a similar work to liberate the southern people from the domination of the People’s movement.
Addressing Wednesday at the headquarters of the National [...]

Abdelgadir: Priority of State is Deterrence of Betrayers and Aggressors

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

The State Minister at the Presidency, Idriss Abdelgadir has disclosed that the current priority of the state is the deterrence of the betrayers and aggressors and not dialogue.
Abdelgadir addressing mobilization campaign organized, Thursday, at the Republican Place, said the aggression on Higlig by the State of South Sudan has unified the internal front to face the plots woven against Sudan, adding that the strategic option of Sudan was maintaining of peace and establishment of good [...]

Foreign Ministry Reiterates Sudan Adherence to its right to end current situation in Higlig

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

The Foreign Ministry has reiterated Sudan adherence to its right to use all means to put an end the aggression on Heglig area in accordance with Article (51) of the UN Charter, affirming the governmen commitment to adopt all the necessary political and military arrangements in this connection .
The Director of the International Relations Department of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador, Omer Dahab, said in a press statements Wednesday, that Sudan is working to end the [...]

Dr. Ismail reviews outcomes of his meetings with Ethiopian and African Union officials

Gms: Addis Ababa, April 20 (SUNA)

The Presidential Advisor and envoy of the president of the Republic to Ethiopia, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, stressed that the real problem between Sudan and the state of South Sudan is a security one in the first place, because of the insistence of the government of South Sudan to host its territories and to support the rebellion’s movements of Darfur, the Blue Nile and South Kordofan, and to finance and to send them to the [...]

Council of States announces support to the Armed Forces

Gms: Khartoum, April 20 (SUNA)

The Chairman of the Council of the States, Gen. Adam Hamid Musa announced the Council’ support to the Armed Forces for liberating every inches of our territories from the agents and enemies.
Addressing a gathering organized by the Council’s Workers Trade Union for supporting the Armed Forces Wednesday, Gen. Musa lauded the patriotic role being played by the Armed Forces and mujahideen for defending the Sudan and its security and stability, revealing that the plot of [...]

Violence and abuse against women (2)

By A. S. Alkoronki

Some circles in the West try insistently to indict other cultures with the vice of violence abuse against women. The culture more targeted than others is the Islamic and Arabic culture. This column and the coming ones will look into the matter if the West is clearly innocent of that incrimination. We will examine facts, figure and articles published in the West itself. Here we begin with facts from Britain:

Michael Kaufman wrote on the guardian.co.uk, issue of [...]