Mohamed – “We cannot underrate Ahly Shandy

Gms: Cafonline, 5 August

Al Hilal’s Nigeria-born right back, Yusuf Mohamed tells Cafonline.com that they are wary of opponents, Al Ahly Shandy in their opening match of the group phase of the 2012 Orange CAF Confederation Cup this weekend.

Below are details of the interview the 28-year old defender granted Cafonline.com in the build up to the game.

Cafonline.com: How ready are Al Hilal players for this match?

Yusuf Mohamed: We have been preparing for the task, which I’m aware won’t be an easy [...]

Khartoum Hosts Sudanese-Malaysian investment symposium in November

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 5 August

The Sudanese capital Khartoum will host in the first week of November the Sudanese-Malaysian investment commercial symposium with a participation of more than 50 companies and 100 Malaysian businessmen and with presence of the ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohammad.
The Director General of the Suda- Accepo Company, that organizes the symposium, Salah Omer said in statement to the Sudan News Agency that the seminar is an open chance to the Malaysian businessmen to discuss with their Sudanese counterparts [...]

News Analysis: Could oil deal between Sudan, S. Sudan endure amid standing barriers?

Gms: KHARTOUM, Aug. 5 (Xinhua)

The oil deal reached between Sudan and South Sudan has constituted an important breakthrough in the two countries’ negotiations over outstanding issues in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but observers wonder whether the deal would endure under other differences, top of them the security file.

The African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki on Friday announced that Sudan and South Sudan have reached an agreement on sharing their oil resources, which allows the resumption of southern oil to export through Sudan’s [...]

Italian Mission Explores Antiquities in North and River Nile States

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 5 August
A technical mission specializing in research and antiquities’ exploration and reparation will begin work in September in the North and River Nile States.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Tourism, Antiquities and Wildlife Mohamed Abdul-Karim Alhd, has affirmed, during an earlier meeting with the Ambassador of Italy to Sudan, his ministry’s support to all the efforts aimed for reactivation of the tourism sector and enhancement of the antiquities’ sector due to its importance in reflecting Sudan culture [...]

Aboutrika draws inspiration from tragedy

Gms: (FIFA.com) 5 August 2012

Whether or not you believe in fate, there are certain events that seem to be written in the stars. Egypt qualifying for the Olympic quarter-finals on 1 August, six months to the day after being devastated by the disaster in Port Said, had that kind of feel to it.
For no-one was the triumph more poignant than the team’s captain, Mohamed Aboutrika. It is hardly surprising to hear that the 33-year-old will never forget what he [...]

British study finds genetic clue for why women live longer than men

Gms: LONDON, August 5 (Xinhua)

A British study said on Friday that researchers have found a genetic clue of why women generally outlive men through studying fruit flies.

The research, published in the journal Current Biology and conducted by Lancaster University in Britain reported that a set of DNA inherited only from the mother can be harmful to males and speed up male aging.

After carrying experiments with fruit flies, researchers said the results point to numerous mutations within mitochondrial DNA that [...]

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

By Eric Schlosser

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.
Schlosser’s myth-shattering survey stretches from California’s subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food’s [...]

President Albashir Concludes Official Visit to Qatar

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 5 August

The President of the Republic Omer Albashir returned home Friday evening concluding an official visit to Qatar where he held series of meeting. He was received in the airport by the First Vice President Ali Osman Taha, ministers and the Qatari Charge d’Affaire to Khartoum.
The state minister at the Foreign Affairs Ministry Salah Wanssi said that the visit came in the context of consultation between the two countries on issues of mutual interests and described the [...]

Clinton offers stern advice in South Sudan, a country U.S. helped create

Gms: JUBA, South Sudan, Sudan.net, Washington Post – August 05, By Anne Gearan

Frustrated by a year of setbacks and violence and a looming refugee crisis in a country whose birth it midwifed last summer, the Obama administration sent its top diplomat to dispense some stern advice Friday.

Make lasting peace and an oil deal with Sudan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, one day after a United Nations deadline for the countries to make progress [...]

Sudan and South Sudan reach a final agreement on oil transit fees

Gms: Khartoum, Aug. 5 (SUNA)

The Ministry of Petroleum on Saturday said Sudan and south Sudan have reached an agreement on oil transit fees; however government official spokesman at the oil talks in Addis Ababa, said the deal falls below the expectations of the two sides.
“We have reached a final agreement with South Sudan on oil transit, and we expect an overture on other files under negotiations” The Undersecretary at the Ministry of Petroleum: Awad Abdul Fatah, told the Sudan [...]