South Sudan is it deferant from north or ...!!!

S. Sudan’s Kiir cautions family members over public conduct

March 30, 2014 (JUBA) – Perturbed by last week’s media portrayal of his family member, South Sudan President Salva Kiir has cautioned his relatives against misconduct while in public.

 “I have always told you to behave in a way that would not create inconveniences to other people, because the way you conduct yourself would be interpreted to mean different things by some people”, Kiir reportedly told his family members on Saturday.

“The real issue would be twisted and politicized”, stressed the president.

A Kenyan daily reported on Friday that the president’s 23-year old son, Manut Kiir Mayardit was briefly detained by Police after he assaulted his sister while drunk.

This anti-social behavior is what could have prompted the head of the world’s youngest nation to convene the meeting during which he caution all family members, wherever they resided, to refrain from habits that would attract public attention.

“You have to understand that you would never be alone wherever you go. So be careful with whatever you do”, said Kiir, describing as “unfortunate” media’s coverage of the incident.

“It is unfortunate that you would never be left to live like any other persons, which is act of interference with privacy and individual life and the people [media] who do this should know that they are stepping into other people’s life”, the president reportedly stressed.

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT

Article 22 of South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution states that the privacy of all persons shall be inviolable; no person shall be subjected to interference with his or her private life, family, home or correspondence, save in accordance with the law.

The article does not, however, specify which private lives should not be interfered with and whether such provisions were confined to individuals inside the country or not.

A critic of the president called the incident a “total failure” by the latter to manage his family.

“Some people may be struggling to find interpretations of this incident, but for me, it is a total failure on the part of the President to manage his own family, which is a clear reflection on how he is managing the nation,” a senior member of the ruling party (SPLM) said Sunday.

“If you cannot manage your own family, it follows automatically that it won’t be possible managing millions of people with different family members from different ethnic ground”, added the official, who preferred anonymity.

Another critic said children learn from environments in which they are brought and that any misconduct from a member of the first family was negatively reflected on the whole nation.

“What happened it Nairobi may be construed to mean an individual, failure but it can also be interpreted to mean the failure of the whole country, because this is the conduct of the family of president of the nation”, said the critic.

“Some people from outside South Sudan may interpret it to mean a general conduct of the people of this country. We would automatically be viewed as violence country”, he added.

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That is investment.

17-ديسمبر-2013:قطر تخصص (88) مليون دولار لصالح التنمية بدارفور

الخرطوم: المشهد الآن

قال نائب رئيس الوزراء القطري رئيس آلية متابعة إنفاذ اتفاقية الدوحة آل محمود في المؤتمر الصحفي إن الاجتماع السابع للآلية قد استمع إلى تقرير من رئيس بعثة الـ(يوناميد) حول ما أحرز من تقدم في مجال تنفيذ اتفاقية الدوحة للسلام بدارفور بجانب الاستماع إلى تقرير ثاني من رئيس مكتب سلام دارفور ممثل الحكومة الاتحادية علاوة على الاستماع إلى تقرير ثالث من نائب رئيس حركة العدل المساواة السودانية الموقعة على اتفاقية الدوحة، وأبان أن الاجتماع قد تناول تلك التقارير بالنقاش المستفيض، مشيرا إلى أنه قد تم التأكيد على أهمية دعم إنفاذ وثيقة الدوحة للسلام بدارفور، مضيفا أن المجتمعين قدموا شكرهم للسيد محمد بن شمباس الوسيط المشترك رئيس بعثة الـ (يوناميد) لما ظل يبذله من جهود متصلة من أجل إلحاق الحركات غير الموقعة على وثيقة الدوحة بركب السلام، وجدد آل محمود دعم بلاده غير المحدود لهذه الجهود حتى تصل إلى غاياتها، مؤكدا أنهم يعملون من أجل تعميق عمليات التنمية بدارفور مشيرا في ذلك إلى ما أعلنه رئيس السلطة الإقليمية لدارفور بشأن المشروعات التنموية التي بدأ العمل في تنفيذها بدارفور، معلنا أن قطر قد رصدت مبلغ (88) مليون دولار للمساعدات العاجلة بدارفور وهي في انتظار تسمية المشاريع من قبل برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي والإجراءات المتعلقة بتحويل المبلغ، ومشددا على مضيهم في تنفيذ تلك المشاريع ونبه محمود إلى أنهم ينتظرون التحرك السريع من قبل المسؤولين عن التنمية لضمان تنفيذ تلك المشاريع تلبية لاحتياجات إنسان دارفور الذي قال إنه لم يعد يحتمل المزيد من الانتظار . وكشف رئيس آلية متابعة تنفيذ وثيقة الدوحة أن الاجتماع قد شدد على أن الاعتداء على المدنيين أو على مشروعات التنمية بدارفور هو خط أحمر- على حد تعبيره، وعزا بطء تنفيذ وثيقة الدوحة للسلام بدارفور إلى عدة عوامل منها المحلية التي تتمثل في الصراعات القبلية، بجانب تأخر الحكومة السودانية في الإيفاء ببعض التزاماتها تجاه الاتفاقية نتيجة لبعض العوامل السياسية إضافة إلى انشغال المجتمع الدولي ببعض المستجدات التي طرأت على الساحة الدولية، مؤكدا التزام بلاده بتنفيذ المشروعات التي التزمت بها اتجاه دارفور بدارفور وأنها قد تجاوزت حتى الآن نسبة الـ40%.

Sudan and Crimean referendum.

Sudan votes against UN resolution on “invalid” Crimean referendum

March 27, 2014 (WASHINGTON) – Sudan was among 11 countries at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that voted against a resolution declaring a referendum held this month in Crimea on the region splitting from Ukraine as invalid.

Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Armenia, Belarus and Bolivia also voted against the non-binding vote. There were also 58 abstentions in the 193-nation UN body.

Following the vote, Moscow formally annexed Ukraine’s southern region after the results showed an overwhleming majority in favor of joining Russia.

The move drew strong condemnation specially from the US and European countries some of which moved to impose unilateral sanctions.

A Washington Post factbox states that about 2 million people live in Crimea of which around 60% see themselves as ethnic Russians and speak Russian.

The referendum in Crimea is somewhat similar to the one held in October 2013 in the disputed region of Abyei that lies between Sudan and South Sudan.

The outcome of the three day unilateral vote organized by Ngok Dinka pro-south tribe showed a near unanimous desire in favor of Abyei joining South Sudan.

Initially Juba appeared supportive of the referendum by giving Abyei residents time off to vote, but later distanced itself from it. There was also no international support for it from the start and was swiftly rejected by Khartoum.

Abyei was scheduled to hold a referendum with that of South Sudan in January 2011 but was suspended because of disagreements between the two countries over who was eligible to participate in the vote.

In a bid to resolve the impasse, the African Union mediation team proposed in 2012 holding a referendum in Abyei in October 2013, stipulating that only the Ngok Dinka permanently residing in the area would be allowed to take part in the plebiscite.

However, Sudan swiftly rejected the proposal, saying it ignored the eligibility of the nomadic Arab Misseriya tribesmen and argued that local government institutions must be established first before any vote can take place.

Just as Moscow insists that Crimea has historically been part of Russia, Khartoum has the same conviction on Abyei.

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Jenjaweed return as reguklar army of Bashir assistance Musa Hillal.

الأمم المتحدة : هجوم الجنجويد على دارفور مشين

03-28-2014 12:57 AM

قوات الدعم السريع المعروفة باسم 'الجنجويد' تعود إلى دارفور بعدما ساندت القوات الحكومية في القتال في منطقة جنوب كردفان على الحدود الشرقية للإقليم.


الخرطوم- اتهم رئيس البعثة المشتركة للأمم المتحدة والاتحاد الإفريقي لحفظ السلام في دارفور (غرب السودان) محمد بن شمباس قوات الدعم السريع السودانية بشن هجمات على قرى مدنيين، معتبرا أن ذلك “عيب” وأمر مشين.

وقال رئيس البعثة في اجتماع لقادة قبيلة الزغاوة في نجامينا يهدف إلى جلب الحركات المسلحة لعملية السلام، إن “الهجمات المستمرة على قرى المدنيين ومخيمات النازحين التي يعتقد أن قوات الدعم السريع هي من قام بها أمر مقلق وعيب وقبيح لجهودنا للحوار”.

وكانت قوات الدعم السريع والتي تعرف باسم “الجنجويد” قد عادت إلى دارفور مطلع العام الجاري بعدما ساندت القوات الحكومية في القتال في منطقة جنوب كردفان على الحدود الشرقية للإقليم، ومنذ ذلك الحين وقعت عدة هجمات على قرى مدنيين في جنوب دارفور وشماله.

ووصف مجدي الجزولي الباحث في معهد الوادي المتصدع قوات الدعم السريع بأنها “أشبه بجيش مرتزقة” يضمّ ستة آلاف رجل.
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East Sudan -FUNG -

Khartoum suspends UN refugee aid programme in east Sudan

March 26, 2014 10:09 AM

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File photo shows a man standing outside a tent in Shegerab refugee camp in Kassala State, eastern Sudan on Feburary 18, 2010 (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

Khartoum (AFP) - Sudan has suspended a United Nations programme which gives job training and other assistance to thousands of refugees and local residents in poverty-stricken east Sudan, the UN said on Wednesday.

The state-linked Sudanese Media Centre said the Transitional Solutions Initiative (TSI) is on hold while both sides review the project "so it can attain its goals."

The programme's beneficiaries are among 6.1 million people -- 18 percent of the population -- needing humanitarian assistance in Sudan.

TSI aims to help the tens of thousands of refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia, some of whom have been in eastern Sudan for decades.

"We have indeed been asked to hold off on components of the programme, the delivery on the ground, so that work can take into consideration and be guided by the results of the assessment, joint assessment," Pontus Ohrstedt of the UN Development Programme told AFP.

TSI is a partnership between UNDP, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and Sudanese agencies, with funding largely from Norway and the Netherlands.

Ohrstedt said the assessment should give some guidelines on how to proceed in about two weeks.

The review will particularly focus on health and education services for the refugees and the local communities who are their hosts, he said.

According to TSI's website, the programme would directly or indirectly assist almost 163,000 people from 2012-2014.

It has offered a range of support including training in auto mechanics and milk production, establishment of home gardens to boost food supply, and provision of educational supplies for thousands of students.

All the last 50 years Sudan was and stil living through loans...oh my god.

Home | News    Tuesday 25 March 2014

China to provide new loans to Sudan: official

March 24, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese ministry of finance of Sudan signed a number of agreements China in the fields of launching new oil exploration efforts, development projects in addition to the approval of additional loans, an official here said today.

The Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance Youssef Abdullah al-Hussein told the Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website after returning from Beijing that the two sides reached an understanding on the construction of the new Khartoum International Airport, Blue Nile sugar factory and Omdurman-Bara road project.

They also agreed on working to increase Sudan’s oil production and speed up work on the country’s railway system, he added.

Al-Hussein said that Beijing confirmed its earnest desire to help Sudan overcome its economic obstacles. He praised the role of the Export-Import Bank of China which funds development projects which will begin in the second half of this year.

The Sudanese official also announced that the bank promised to fund oil projects in coordination with the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) and credit institutions.

Last week the Sudanese finance minister Badr al-Deen Mahmoud and the oil minister Makkawi Mohamed Awad visited Beijing for talks with Chinese officials and executives of major companies and banks.

China has been Sudan’s largest foreign investor particularly in oil and telecommunications after western firms shunned the East African nation due to conflicts and sanctions.

But a report by Reuters last year cited growing difficulties facing Chinese investments as a result of the deteriorating economy.

China’s exports and imports to and from Sudan, which totaled $11.5 billion in 2011, amounted to just $3.3 billion in the January-November period of 2012, Reuters quoted official Chinese data.

The drop in oil trade accounted for much of that decline. But even while the oil industry has been shut down trade has continued to fall. In the first five months of 2013, Chinese exports to Sudan fell 8 percent from a year earlier to $1.7 billion, the data shows.

Sudan has seen its economy take a nosedive after the south became independent in July 2011, taking with it three-quarters of the once united country’s oil output. According to figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country’s GDP contracted by 4.4% in 2012.

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) released last October by the IMF projected Sudan’s economy to grow by 3.9% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.

The Sudanese pound has lost more than half its value, pushing inflation rates to record levels given that the East African nation imports most of its food.

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Sudanese Authorities and SOGGORNO.

Home | News    Monday 24 March 2014

Sudanese authorities to crack down on illegal residents

March 23, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese ministry of interior has announced it would apply legal measures against foreign nationals who have not legalised their residency in accordance with immigration rules as of 1 April 2014.

The deputy director general and inspector general of Sudan’s police, Omer Mohamed Ali, who headed a joint meeting including the passports and civil registry authority, Khartoum police, guidance and services authority and the refugees commission, stressed that the new measures are part of the laws which regulate foreign presence in all countries in order to control identity.

He called on foreigners to complete registration by the end of the current month, noting that legal residents and registered refugees are not targeted by the inspection campaigns which will be launched following the deadline.

Ali further pointed that they held meetings with foreign embassies in Khartoum in order to ask them to push their nationals to legalise their status.

Several Sudanese states particularly in the east have applied strict measures to control their borders with neighbouring countries.

This week, the city of Kassala in eastern Sudan announced that government agencies are implementing strict measures in border areas to stop human trafficking as well as food and fuel smuggling to neighbouring countries.

The mayor of Kassala locality Osman Mohamed Nur told the government-sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website that the recently enacted federal law on the prevention of human trafficking and smuggling, as well as state legislation, have contributed to curbing the phenomena.

Thousands of Eritreans have fled repression in their homeland, which is referred to as the North Korea of Africa, usually transiting via Sudan and Egypt en route to Europe, Israel or other countries.

At a border conference held in Morocco earlier this month, the state’s minister at the ministry of interior, Babiker Ahmed Digna, said Sudan had requested further support for its efforts to fight human trafficking, saying the UK and several other European countries have responded positively on the basis that Sudan is considered a passage country for refugees heading to Europe.

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