Giant Killer Mice Decimating Rare Seabirds :House mice “chewing away” at millions of baby petrels, study says

By National Geographic

On a remote island in the South Atlantic, common house mice have become unrelenting killers, consuming millions of endangered baby birds a year, a new study confirms.

The massacre is taking place on Gough Island (map), a British territory almost smack-dab in between the tips of South America and South Africa. The only humans living on the island belong to a small team running a weather station.

Gough Island has long been recognized as an important seabird colony, since it [...]

Headlines of newspapers issued in Khartoum Monday

Gms: Khartoum May 29 (SUNA)

Headlines of newspapers issued in Khartoum Monday 28th 2012:
(AL-AIAM):
Tomorrow talks to discuss agenda and mechanism of implementation monitoring.
Armed Forces denies owning or using cluster bombs.
AL-Bashir : We are satisfied by police forces performance.
Karti to Tunisia today.
(ALWAN):
Ibrahim Ahmed Omer: State officials should be dealt with (strictly)
accountability.
Foreign Ministry: Tuesday is for agenda identification and not for negotiations.
(AL-AHRAM AL-YOUM):
Arrest of suspects related to( PRADO) blast in Port Sudan.
[...]

3. 3 Million Euros Grant from African Development Bank for Darfur Water Projects

Gms: Khartoum, Sudan Vision, 29 May

Sudan government represented by Ministry of Finance and National Economy and African Development Bank signed a grant for funding Darfur water projects with a sum of 3. 3 Million Euros; an amount which is equivalent to 4. 6 Million Dollars.
Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) led by the head of Darfur Regional Authority Dr. Tigani Sessi affirmed the importance of the grant in supporting infrastructure projects and water harvest in the region.
Dr. Sisi said [...]

University of Khartoum participates in the 110th Anniversary of Yanshou University‏

A delegation from University of Khartoum, composed of Scientific Research and Cultural Relations Director -Dr.Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahiem together with the Director of Assistant Teachers Directorate Dr. Al Amin Sanjak, will visit China participating in the (110th) annversary of Yanshou University.
The visit will also include signing of agteements on mutual training programmes.

African aces stalking European stage

Gms: Cafonline, fifa.com, 29 May

In shaping the history of African football, the likes of Roger Milla, Rabah Madjer, George Weah, Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o have blazed trails for their brethren to follow. And while not all of their successors can attain the heights they reached, a fair few African goalgetters have impressed on the European scene this season, some of them in the continent’s less fashionable leagues.

FIFA.com looks at just some of the African front-men who have spent the [...]

The poem “I am a Muslim woman”

By A. S. Alkoronki

Western media and western organizations, systematically, used to claim that Islam and Muslims mistreat their women. No one of them asked a Muslim woman whether she feels being mistreated or degraded because she is a woman (Gender bias). Not only that, but when a Muslim woman expresses her satisfaction of being a Muslim, a woman and a full Human being who enjoys all the rights and duties of a human being, they just ignore her.

The following poem [...]

1500 IDPS Families Return to Wadi Salih Locality in Central Darfur

Gms: Khartoum (smc), 29 May

Darfur central state government announced that, 1500 IDPS families have returned to Arola area of Wadi Salih locality in the state, in the context of voluntarily return program, reported local media Sunday.
Wadi Salih locality commissioner Abdel Ghani Haroon said local authorities would hurry up procedures to allow returnees have access to agricultural season.
The returnees, who arrived in the locality, had been hosted at Garsila and Daj camps. He pointed out that, the locality starts [...]

Khartoum Rules Out Possible Summit between Khartoum, Juba

Gms: Khartoum (smc), 29 May

Khartoum has ruled out any possible meeting between President Omar AL Bashir and his southern Sudan counterpart Salva kier before solving the security issues between the two countries, reported local media Sunday.
Khartoum hostages the bilateral summit, between the two presidents, to finally solving of security dispute, in the upcoming talks scheduled in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, sponsored by AUHIP. The Government says, it has received an official invitation, from AUHIP chief Thambo Mbeki for holding [...]

Talks in Addis Ababa to begin Tuesday for Setting Negotiation Agenda

Gms: Khartoum, May 29 (SUNA)

The delegations of Sudan and South Sudan State are to begin talks in Addis Ababa Tuesday (today) to formulate the agenda of the negotiations and to review steps for implementation of the UN Security Council resolution and the African Union’s road-map.
The Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Al-Obeid Morawah, said that the government of Sudan gives priority to security issues, Adding that all the international partners have agreed on the importance of giving priority to [...]

President Al-Bashir Awards Medals in Honor of Police Forces Leaders

Gms: Khartoum, May 29 (SUNA)

President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, has issued a Republican Decree awarding medals to a number of the Police Forces leaders.
He awarded the Nelein Order (First Class) to the General Director of the Police Forces, Gen. Hashim Osman Al-Hussein.
He awarded the Nelein Order (First Class) to the Deputy General Director of the Police Forces, Gen. Al-Adel Al-Ajib.
The President of the Republic has awarded the Nelein Order (Second Class) to Maj. Gen. [...]