Happy birthday to you!

Gms: (FIFA.com) 23 July 2012

In our regular Sunday feature, FIFA.com presents you with some of the biggest names in football who will be celebrating their birthdays during the coming week.

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Kristine Lilly (41) represented USA in the first five FIFA Women’s World Cup™ tournaments, lifting the trophy twice and finishing third on three other occasions. In total, she played thirty matches in the competition, scoring eight goals. At the Olympics, the attack-minded American picked up two gold medals and one silver. [...]

Sudan: Ramadan The Month of Blessings

By: A. S. Alkoronki
Ramadan the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar has started this year (1433) on the twentieth of July 2012. Last year (1432) it was on the 2nd of August 2011. The difference between the Georgian and Islamic calendars, as you note is between 11 to 13 days. So every three years the month of Ramadan moves back nearly a month in the Georgian calendar. So a full year rotation takes more than thirty years, through [...]

Malaysia Seeks to Expand Investment in Oil and Gas in Sudan

Gms: Khartoum, SV, 24 July
Malaysia expressed its desire to expand its investments in the field of oil and gas in Sudan.
The visiting Malaysian delegation at meeting yesterday with the Minister of Petroleum described investment opportunities in Sudan as attractive, commending the success of the experience of Petronas Company in Sudan.
Minister of Petroleum, Awad Ahmed Al Jaz, for his part, welcomed Malaysia’s interest in expanding its investment in the Sudan in the fields of oil and gas, saying [...]

Minister of Culture and Information at DRA praises success of conference of people of Darfur

Gms: Khartoum, July 24 ( SUNA )
The Minister of Culture and Information at the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA), engineer Ibrahim Mahmoud Musa Madibu, said that the Conference of the People of Darfur, which was held in El-Fasher, has provided opportunity to discuss the issues of Darfur and to consolidate concepts of the collective work.
He indicated that the conference has discussed five working papers pertinent to the dispute in Darfur.
The Minister of Culture and Information has stressed [...]

Niyala Hosts Voluntary Return of Darfur Refugees, IDPs Conference in September

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 24 July

The capital of South Darfur State, Niyala will host in September a conference for voluntary return of the Darfur refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). A meeting of the preparatory committee of the conference chaired by the commissioner of voluntary repatriation and resettlement affiliated to the Darfur Regional Authority Azhari Altahir said that subcommittees will be formed including IDPs to make a tour in the displaced persons camps in the five Darfur states to discuss with the [...]

Khartoum Governor Inaugurates Six Health Units in Bahri

Gms: Khartoum, Sv, 24 July

Governor of Khartoum state Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Khidir confirmed that the state’s attention to the health sector does not stop at building Health clinics but its attention also extends to fighting the causes of disease.
The governor affirmed the importance of optimizing performance in the field of environmental health and primary health care.
He confirmed what he has before promoted in his electoral campaign for Kadaro and the Northern Country areas of Khartoum state, pointing out in [...]

Dr. Bashari underlines great role of communication companies, gives them directives to expand in all states

Gms: Khartoum, July 24 ( SUNA )
The Minister of Science and Communications Dr. Issa Bashari has affirmed the great role being played by the communication companies working in Sudan in realization of social contact and rendering services to various sectors.
He added that the level of services rendered in the communication sector represented one of the most important factors contributes to the investment attraction.
Dr. Bashari directed the communication companies, when he met with the delegation MTN Company headed [...]

Sudan Wants South Sudan Deal but Pins Impasse on Juba

Gms: KHARTOUM, SV, 24 July

Sudan wants to settle all its differences with South Sudan through talks, but sees little hope of a swift resolution while it believes Juba is backing rebels that threaten its territorial integrity, a senior ruling party official said on Sunday.
“We cannot cooperate on the economy, politics, oil, whatever, when the other party is endangering our security,” Ghandour told Reuters in an interview. “We cannot build trust when the other party is supporting rebel movements with [...]

Sudan fuel subsidy not fully lifted until end 2013

Gms: KHARTOUM, Sudan.net, (Reuters), July 24,
Sudan will not fully remove fuel subsidies until the end of 2013 since austerity measures worth 7 billion Sudanese pounds ($1.5 billion) are sufficient to turn around the ailing economy, a senior ruling party official said on Sunday.
The Arab African country is struggling with a worsening economic crisis after losing much of its oil wealth – the main source for revenues and dollars needed for imports – when South Sudan became independent last [...]

S. Sudan Delegation to Negotiations Influenced by Foreign Agenda: NCP

Gms: Khartoum, SV, 24 July

The National Congress Party said that South Sudan’s delegation to Addis Ababa negations is not serious to reach peace and that foreign agenda is influencing course of negotiations, in general.
Dr. Mandour Al-Mahdi, Deputy Chairman of NCP in Khartoum said following the meeting of political sector chaired by Dr. Al-Haj Adam Yousif, Vice-President, Yesterday added that the main concern of the South is to wait until August 2nd and imposing sanctions on Sudan by the UN [...]