Sudanese Flag and National Anthem in London Olympic Reception

By Khalid Al Mubarak

Many Sudanese refer to London as the “Fog capital” actually it is the capital of maintenance and construction. Maintenance of roads and construction were undertaken with feverish haste in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. The Olympic village is now ready for the 30th July start.
On 23rd July the Sudanese Olympic team had a role to play too. The Sudanese flag was hoisted and the national anthem played in the presence of the team, led by Lieutenant [...]

Gum Harvest

By Mustafa Abul Azayim

We once depended on cotton as our main cash crop, but its exports deteriorated sharply.  Then came the Gum Arabic as second, but its exports were very poor. Not only that but our Gum  was smuggled to some African countries and they exported our own Gum more than we do. Two days ago, I read a news saying that ninety per cent of the Gum product has not been harvested, because the harvest laborers either went to [...]

Sudan: South Sudan’s Faulty Start

Gms: Sudan.net, Leadership (Abuja) – Column- July 15, BY ABBA MAHMOOD

The 54th African nation, South Sudan, came into being on July 9, 2011. This was as a result of the referendum that was contained in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between the government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) which had been fighting a bitter war since 1983

In many ways, that referendum had wider implications for the rest of the continent since it was the [...]

Viewpoint: South Sudan has not lived up to the hype

Sudan: Coping with divorce

Is war inevitable?
Rebels seek advantage
Southerners in legal limbo
Horror of deadly cattle vendetta

As South Sudan prepares to celebrate the first anniversary of its independence, blogger PaanLuel Wel discusses whether the world’s newest country has lived up to the hopes of a year ago.

There were great celebrations and high expectations when South Sudan finally seceded from the Sudan on 9 July, 2011.

Yet barely a year into South Sudan’s much-hyped independence, the country has failed miserably to live up to [...]

South Sudan’s First Year of Independence Mired in Conflict

Gms, NAIROBI, VOA, July 07, 2012 , Roopa Gogineni

Next Monday, South Sudan will celebrate its first year of independence. Many challenges face the young nation, including an ill-defined and violent border with Sudan, internal conflicts in the Greater Upper Nile region, and a looming economic crisis.
A year ago today, hopes were high for Africa’s newest nation. After more than two decades of war, South Sudan officially seceded from Sudan.
Giell Deng, a South Sudanese musician, is looking forward to [...]

South Sudan’s Unhappy Anniversary

Gms: Sudan.net, Foreign Policy in Focus, FPIF – July 04, By Terah Edun

The status of the province of Abyei is an unresolved issue from the June 2011 détente between Sudan and South Sudan. In the year since South Sudan’s independence, the two countries have managed to avoid a full-scale war. But minor skirmishes on the border and illegitimate air raids on the Heglig oil field in April 2012, however, have disrupted that faulty peace.

Abyei, a small area with special administrative [...]

Towards Just Application to Austerity Measures

By Muawad Mustafa Rashid

The recent austerity measures were aimed at ending economic deterioration, most importantly lifting subsidy on fuels and at the same time exempting some basic goods from taxation such as wheat, flour and sugar; in addition various reforms at the state’s structure, constitutional amendments needed at the federal and states levels.
The surgery or the soar medicine represented by the recent economic measures should be followed up closely by the concerned parties in the state as well as [...]

South Sudan, still in infancy, already a global problem child

Gms: NAIROBI, Kenya, Sudan.net, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, June 16

Along a road littered with bodies, South Sudan marched north in mid-April to capture a Sudanese oil field that both countries claim.

The first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan is fast approaching, but the hoped-for peace that was the promise of South Sudan’s creation last July 9 hasn’t materialized. Instead, war seems closer than at any other time since the 2005 peace agreement that U.S. diplomats brokered, and South Sudan’s reputation is [...]

Ocampo’s Horrible Fall!

Gms: 11 June, (Editorial) Sudan Vision

Sudanese Foreign Ministry Acting Undersecretary held a press conference last Thursday where he commented on the outgoing ICC Prosecutor General Luis Moreno Ocampo last report presented to the UNSC, where he revealed the details of the session.
Ocampo concluded his shelve life as ICC Prosecutor General by forwarding a report over Darfur issue renewing his accusation against President Al Bashir.
According to UNSC officials, Ocampo’s statement was very far from the legal realm which the [...]

A Moslem Chinese Ambassador in Khartoum

By Abdul Mahmoud Al-Krunki

The Chinese ambassador who has just left was the son of two Moslem parents. He was succeeded by the current ambassador. Islam entered China around mid seventeenth century. The number of the Chinese Moslems is about 120 million. From the 56 Chinese nationalities, there are ten who are Moslems. Uzbek, Ghirghize, and Tatar are some of those nationalities. Islam has great influence in the Chinese social and cultural life. The Chinese Moslems are participating positively in the [...]