Boycotting Commodities.. Will it Pay Off?

By Muawad Mustafa Rashid

The statement issued by the Consumer Protection Society urging citizens to boycott some of the commodities after the unjustifiable increase in its prices, is practiced before when people boycotted buying meat a matter that resulted to the reduction of its prices within only few days.
However, due to the monopoly of some greedy merchants the prices are always subject to unjustifiable hikes such as meats.
The cost of one kilogram of meat reached between SDG40 – 50 [...]

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 [...]

Ministry of Culture: 3 achievements in less than one month (3)

By: A. S. Alkoronki

Achievement Three: Hosting States’ Ministers of Culture 2^nd annual meeting.

The Ministry of Culture, towards the end of last June, hosted the Sudan States’ Ministers of Culture 2^nd annual meeting. For me, as a past official at the Ministry and still in contact with it, that was an achievement. Sudan is a vast country well known for its diverse cultural activities. The diversity of cultural activities has ensued from the huge number of tribes and ethnic groups that [...]

The Features of a President

By Abdul Rahman Al-Ninga

In a social occasion, the President of the Republic, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir met with a small child. The child seemed to be fond of his “head of state”. He asked him to have a photo with him, a request the President immediately agreed to. He posed for the photo. The child was very pleased with picture and commented:” it is a very beautiful picture, Mr. President.”  This is not the first time the president behaves in [...]

Amid Low International Participation, S. Sudan Commemorates First Independence Anniversary

Gms: SV, Juba – 11 July

The Republic of South Sudan yesterday celebrated its first Anniversary of Independence which was attended by several high officials from African States especially President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemerian Desalegn, Chairperson of AU Commission Jean Ping, AU Chairperson Yayi Boni, Minister of State for Public Service of Kenya Dalmas Ayango and Special Representing of the UN Secretary General Hilda Johnson and other dignitaries.
Sudan participated with a high level delegation [...]

Vocational Training .. Core of Development

By Muawad Mustafa Rashid

Vocational education or Vocational Education and Training (VET), also called Career and Technical Education (CTE), prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic and totally related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates. It is sometimes referred to as technical education, as the learner directly develops expertise in a particular group of techniques or technology.
Generally, vocation and career are used interchangeably. Vocational [...]

Ministry of Culture: 3 achievements in less than one month (1)

By: A. S. Alkoronki

Achievement One:  Electronically archiving 75 million photographs

The Ministry of Culture and DAL Group Co., Ltd. signed on the sixth of last June an agreement to electronically re-archive the ministry’s photographic wealth of more than 75 million photos and negatives. The agreement provides for keeping these millions of photographs which reflect on the history and heritage of Sudan since independence. The state minister at the Ministry of Culture, Mustafa Tairab, thanking Dal Group for the initiative, Described the [...]

The difference between the freedom of expression and chaos!

By Abdul Rahman Al-Ninga

We are now in the middle of an economical crisis. That crisis resulted in a big increase in commodities. That is a fact. Another fact is that no one will ever accept an increase in prices, especially when we speak about basic commodities. This leads us to another fact. The citizen has the right to express that rejection. But here comes the dilemma. Unfortunately most people do not differentiate between the freedom of expression and chaos. Not [...]

The Unsurpassed Professor

By: A. S. Alkoronki

Professor Abdullah Al-Tayeb passed away on the 19^th of June 2003. He was born in 1921 in the village of Al-Timirab, Al-Dammar Locality, where his family and ancestors were famous for their Care for teaching Islamic religious knowledge and Arabic language. Last week his students, people of Arts and Culture commemorated the ninth anniversary of his death.

Here on this site, the well informed writer Muawad Mustafa Rashid, on the 20^th of this June, has written a good [...]

Is President Speech Step to Resolve Financial Crisis?

Gms: Khartoum: SV, 23 June

The step taken by the Government can put the Sudanese economy on the right track and recover the market after the government has adopted a package of economic reforms and austerity measures through the speech of President yesterday in the parliament?
Meanwhile, the government has taken several steps to defuse the crisis by the end of 2012.
In the field of oil, the government prepared the acceleratory program and other programs to increase production in this [...]