Interview with General Manager, White Nile Sugar Company (WNSC), The Plant is the world’s least consumer of energy

KHARTOUM, July 25 (SUDANOW) — Sugar industry is regarded the lead of numerous industries and it contributes to fighting poverty and to development, especially in the countryside. It also provides numerous opportunities of employment, activates the domestic and national economy and meets the demand for the essential sugar commodity. It produces other industries such as ethanol, fodders, etc., for self-sufficiency and exportation to fetch foreign earnings under the current emergency economic circumstances world-wide, including Sudan.

These and other issues were discussed [...]

Economist: expects high productivity in this season

Gms: Khartoum 22/8 (SUNA)

An economist expert, a member of the Economic Committee of Khartoum State Legislative Council dr Ahmed Dawlla said that all projections indicate to a promising high productivity of food in this season, due to heavy rains in the production areas.
Dawlla told (SUNA) that the people of Sudan are promised many blessings in the next stage due to their patience on the economic hardships experienced lately by the country.

He added saying that after the flow of oil [...]

Al-Bashir receives telephone calls from Mursi and Haniya on martyrs of Talodi plane crash

Gms: Khartoum, Aug.22 (SUNA)

The President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir on Monday received telephone call from President of Egypt, Mohammed Mursi in which he conveyed to him condolences of the Egyptian government and people to the Sudanese government and people over martyrs of plane which crashed near Talodi town yesterday.
The President also received similar telephone call from Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.

Song: Everybody knows Barcelona are the best team in the world

Gms: Goal.com, Aug 22, 2012, By Stefan Coerts

Alex Song has voiced his delight with his move from Arsenal to Barcelona, and believes the Catalan giants are the best club in the world.

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The Cameroon international signed a five-year deal with the Blaugrana on Monday to complete his €19 million move, and Song has revealed the transfer is a dream come true for him.
“I am very happy to be here. This is the best team in the world, playing at [...]

Obesity ‘bad for brain’ by hastening cognitive decline

Gms: BBC News, 22 August

Being overweight is not just bad for waistlines but for brains too, say researchers who have linked obesity to declining mental performance.

Experts are not sure why this might be, but say metabolic changes such as high blood sugar and raised cholesterol are likely to be involved.

Obesity has already been tipped as a risk factor for dementia.

The work, published in Neurology, tracked the health of more than 6,000 British people over a decade.

The participants, who were aged [...]

Russian pilot among dead in Sudan crash

Gms: Sudan.net, AFP – August 22

A Russian pilot was among the victims on a plane which crashed in Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan, killing all 32 people aboard, Moscow’s embassy confirmed on Monday.

“He was the captain,” Yury Vidakas, the embassy’s press officer, told AFP.

Vidakas could not immediately provide the name of the pilot, whom he said was “on private contract” with Alfa Airlines that operated the Antonov charter flight which crashed on Sunday

Several small airline companies in Sudan use pilots from [...]

Karti begins a visit to Cairo next week

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 22 August

Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti Begins a visit to Cairo next week during which he will hold a number of meetings related to the resumption of the work of the Sudanese-Egyptian joint Committee of Ministers.

Karti said in a statement to Sudan Radio that he would discuss with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamil Omar  the resumption of the ministerial committee meetings to discuss many of the files shared between the two countries, especially the economic and trade [...]

Sudan participates in the Arab- EU Economic Forum in Beirut

Gms: Sudanradio.info, 22 August

The General Federation of Sudanese Employers Participates next month in the Lebanese capital Beirut in the activities of the Arab- European Economic Forum organized by the General Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Arab countries in cooperation and coordination with the European Investment Bank and the European Commission, with the participation of businessmen in Arab and European countries, plus Arab and European experts and representatives of investment funds and development in the Arab countries. [...]

Ethiopia kills 16 South Sudan gunmen: officials

Gms: Sudan.net, ADDIS ABABA: The Daily Star – August 22

Ethiopian troops have killed 16 South Sudanese gunmen from a rebel group led by a traditional healer wanted for attacks in his home country, officials said Monday.

“They were asked to surrender their guns…. They refused and started fighting with our forces,” Omot Odeng Olol, the president of the western Ethiopian region of Gambella, told AFP about the clash, which took place last Wednesday

The rebel group was led by a traditional [...]

Bashir expresses his condolences over the death of Zenawi

Gms: Khartoum 08/22/2012 (SUNA)
the President of the Republic Omer Al Bashir  sends his warmest condolences and sympathy to the Government and people of Ethiopia for the death of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, and described him as a brave African leader and a wise Politician who distinctively led his people with tact and knowledge, and for his excellent,  memorable and positive attitudes towards Sudan, he was the first African leader who contributed to the UNAMID troops in Darfur [...]