President Al-Bashir Returns Home after His Participation at Eritrea’s 21st Independence Day anniversary in Asmara

Gms: Khartoum, May 27 (SUNA)

President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, Friday returned home After His Participation at Eritrea’s 21st independence day anniversary in Asmara.
President Al-Bashir and the accompanying delegation were received at Khartoum Airport by The Vice President of the Republic Dr. Al-Haj Adam Yousif,, a number of ministers and senior officials.

Sudan Receives “large amount” of Hard Currency

Gms: KHARTOUM, Sudan.net, Washington Informer – May 27

Sudan’s central bank has received “a large amount” of hard currency from abroad and plans to use it to stabilize the pound following the local currency’s effective devaluation, the deputy central bank governor said in remarks published on Saturday.

Deputy Governor Badr el-Din Mahmoud told al-Sudani newspaper the central bank had received the foreign currency from “friendly” countries. “It arrived in the treasury of the central bank in the past few days,” he said, [...]

Five African states vow to control arms flow

Gms: Sudan.net, New Vision – May 27

Security officials from five African states have pledged to step up cooperation to control the flow of small arms after an UN-backed conference.

Ministers of interior and security from Libya, Chad, Sudan and Central African Republic, as well as a provincial governor from Democratic Republic of Congo, agreed to establish a joint body to counter the proliferation of small arms and light weapons

A declaration issued late Wednesday after their two-day conference said the agreement came [...]

Washington Declares No Intention of Arming SS

Gms: Khartoum (smc), 27 May

It was reported that the US state department spokeswoman Kathrin Fandifat, said that the former US envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsious demand for arming southern Sudan, represents his own view.
She adds Natsious had worked as an envoy in Sudan but, now he no longer represents the US administration; and what he says is his own view. She added that, the current US envoy for Sudan is ambassador Princeton Layman. She argued that the US view [...]

Sudan’s army captures rebel-held areas

Gms: KHARTOUM, Sudan.net, May 25 (UPI)

The Sudanese army took control of two areas previously held by the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army North in Blue Nile state, an official said.

Adam Abakar, deputy governor of Blue Nile, told the Sudanese Media Center Friday the army, in a five-day battle, seized Suda and Gam in the Angasana Mountains and inflicted “great losses in lives and equipment.”

Fighting in Blue Nile erupted in September between government forces and the rebels amid protests over implementation [...]

Israel Legislator, Calls South Sudanese Refugees ‘A Cancer’ Amid Violent Anti-Immigrant Protests

Gms: Sudan.net, Huffington Post – May 27

Miri Regev, a member of the Israeli parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, told protesters during a public demonstration on Wednesday that Sudanese refugees in the country “were a cancer in our body.”

The protests in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood included about 1,000 demonstrators urging the government to expel Sudanese refugees from Israel. According to news reports, the crowd chanted slogans such as “infiltrators get out of our home,” and the scene turned violent as [...]

Presidents Al-Bashir, Afewerki honour Dinner Banquet of Sudanese Ambassador in Asmara

Gms: Asmara, 27 May (SUNA)

President of the Republic, Field marshal Omer Al-Bashir, and his Eritrean counterpart, Asias Afewerki, Friday attended Friday evening a dinner banquet hosted by the Sudanese Ambassador in Asmara in his official residence in Asmara at the honour of the President and the accompanying delegation.
It is to be noted that President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, began a three-day official visit to Eretria to participate in the 21st anniversary of the Independence of Eretria.

Sudan’s Ambassador to Cairo inspects committees of presidential Elections in Cairo

Gms: Cairo, May 27 (SUNA)

Sudan’s Ambassador to Egypt, Kamal Hassan Ali, affirmed his happiness over the ongoing democratic experiment in Egypt to elect the upcoming President of Egypt, expressing his best wishes for Egypt and the Egyptian People.
This came when the Sudanese Ambassador to Cairo Friday inspected some elections committees in Al-Ma’adie and Garden City in South and Central Cairo.
Ambassador Ali said to SUNA that he came to the elections Committees in order to witness the great democratic [...]

Salvation Road Mishaps!

By Muawad Mustafa Rashid,

In the news Sudanese singer Nadir Khidir died last Sunday  morning in a car accident south of Shendi on Salvation Road while returning from the city of Atbara after taking part in a concert at Nile Valley University.
Three other musicians accompanying him were also died in the accident.
As a matter of fact this road was constructed on the nineties of last century to link Khartoum with Atbara, so at that time served the purpose in [...]

Nsereka becomes first woman on FIFA executive committee

Gms: alarabiya.net, Budapest, Reuters, 27 May 2012

Lydia Nsereka, the president of the Burundi Football Association, became the first woman ever to sit on the executive committee of soccer’s world governing body FIFA at the annual congress on Friday.
“I am delighted we have the first ever lady in our executive committee in 108 years,” FIFA president Sepp Blatter told delegates after she took her seat on the podium to a standing ovation of delegates from 209 member states.
Her appointment [...]