Look for Salah Idriss

By Hassan Faroug

I searched for Salah Idriss on all pavements and roads, but I didn’t find him. He suddenly disappeared. He used to sit on the pavements to hunt the setbacks of others to build his own successes. But the hunter disappeared suddenly. Where did he go? I remembered he writes in spots, composing, and politics. He sings. Wasn’t the man available before the match between Ahli Shendi and Al-Hillal? He was. He bought 2,000 tickets for supporters. Wasn’t he [...]

NASA Releases Video of Curiosity’s Descent, Rover Returns Images of Martian Mountain

By FoxNews

NASA’s rover ‘Curiosity’ has survived a harrowing journey to Mars and has lived to tweet about it, as its engineers celebrated back home. Only minutes after touchdown, the rover’s cheerful Twitter account began posting photos, saying, “No photo or it didn’t happen? Well lookee here.”
NASA has released a video of its Curiosity rover in the final few minutes of its descent to Mars, adding to the remarkable barrage of photos and videos that have been released less than [...]

New Clues to How HIV Infects Body’s Cells

By HealthDay News

Helper T-cells normally support the immune system, but a new study involving mice shows HIV-infected T-cells help transport the virus throughout the body and infect other T-cells.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital said their findings could lead to improved treatments that could help control the movement of infected T-cells in the body.
“We have found that HIV disseminates in the body of an infected individual by ‘hitching a ride’ on the T-cells it infects,” study author Dr. Thorsten [...]

Sudan invites Malaysia to set up Islamic banks

Gms: Kuala Lumpur, August 12 (SUNA)

Sudan has invited Malaysia to set up Islamic financial banks in the country in a move that can go a long way in facilitating trade and investment financing between both countries.
Sudan’s Ambassador to Malaysia Nadir Yousif El-tayeb said Sudan welcomes three Islamic banks to set up branches in Sudan, said Malaysia’s national News Agency (Bernama).
Speaking at a press conference on Business Opportunities in Sudan here Thursday, he said more than 50 Malaysian companies [...]

Camel milk may help control diabetes, researchers say

Gms: CAIRO, Sudan.net,  – August 12, by Clare Fleishman

Camels from Sudan and Somalia are led across Egypt’s deserts, where they are sold for meat or pressed into service hauling tourists around ancient tombs and temples. But one part of the camel is often overlooked: Its salty milk may help in controlling diabetes.

Although nomadic folklore mentions the milk as a treatment for high blood sugars, science is only recently confirming its medicinal value

A worldwide rise in diabetes has engulfed health agencies, [...]

The Syrian crisis: how long will the world continue to witness?

By Abdul Rahman Al-Ninga

The Syrian revolution enters its seventeenth month, without any sign or indication that there is a solution at end of the tunnel. Things are getting serious every morning. People die. The death rate has risen from tens to hundreds every day. The regime is using heavy weapons in bombarding the cities on the heads of innocent civilians. The Russian MIG Fighters are used after the helicopters gunships seemed to fail in putting an end to the revolution [...]

Workshop on Refugees Repatriation and Peace organized in Blue Nile

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 12 August

The Governor of Blue Nile State Al-Hadi Bushra addressed a workshop organized by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) on repatriation of refugees and sustainability of peace in the state, attended by the federal State Minister at the Ministry of Development of Human Resources Ahmed Karmino. Mr. Bushra commended the role of the NISS in organizing the workshop as well as involvement of the native administration as part of the efforts to realize peace, hailing the [...]

Al Khidir stresses the importance of sports

The Walli of Khartoum Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Kidir said that sports and culture are basic causes on which the nation is built. The  vision to sports is comprehensive, according to Al-Khidir. He said that sports is a kind of social communications. Addressing the annual breakfast he makes for sports family, the Walli said that the attention the Congress Party gives for sports was expressed in upgrading the sports and Youth High council to a ministry. He said that the state [...]

Jorvan Vieira named new Zamalek boss

Gms: Goal.com, Aug 12, 2012  By Max Bentley

Jorvan Vieira has been announced as the new coach of Egyptian side Zamalek, after flying into Cairo to seal the deal on Friday night.

The former Iraq coach will reportedly sign a one-year contract with club president Mamdouh Abbas, earning a salary of €24,400 ($30,000) each month.

He will choose his assistants, with Ismail Youssef remaining as assistant coach, while Osama Nabieh and Ayman Taher will work with the club’s goalkeepers.

The Brazilian coach, who left [...]

Professor Gambari addresses Muslims at El-Thawara Mosque in El-Fashir

Gms: El-Fashir, August 12 (SUNA)

The Head of the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Joint Special Representative (JSR), Ibrahim Gambari, has called on Muslims to seize the opportunity of the Holy month of Ramadan to do good things, unite and working more for realizing peace in Darfur region.
Prof. Gambari spoke at El-thawrah’s Mosque, south El-Fashir, Friday , Within the Social contact Program which was carried out by the UNAMID during the holy month of Ramadan in [...]