Year: 2021
- Opinion
Guinea Joins the African Club of the “Coup Belt”
Although the situation was difficult and Alpha Conde’s third term was controversial, the military coup is not justifiable. By Mekki ELMOGRABIPress Writer on African Affairselmograbi@gmail.com The fifth of September 2021, will be remembered in history as the day of the coup d’état by Guinea’s military that overthrew the first democratically elected president Alpha Conde, the Guinean politician who served ten years out of his political career in prison paying the price of calling for democracy…
- Columns
Towards Bringing an End to Illiteracy
Muawad Mustafa Rashid A few years ago, the Ministry of General Education revealed the existence of more than 9 thousand and a half illiterate citizens in Sudan. At that time the Ministry announced the launching of an initiative towards literacy with a cost of more than one billion and 653 thousand Sudanese pounds. On their part, the adults’ education officers demanded issuing a Presidential decree on mandatory literacy. It was a good step that the…
- Columns
The Broken Window Theory in Sudan
Mohammed Saad Kamil Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist, reported in 1969 on some experiments testing the broken-window theory. He arranged to have an automobile without license plates parked with its hood up on the street in an area where poor people live and a comparable automobile on a street in an area where rich people live. The car in the poor area was attacked by “vandals” within ten minutes of its “abandonment”. Within 3 days…
- en Francais
Afghanistan, CIMETIÈRE DES EMPIRES
Dr. Abdalmonem ElfadilAbdalmoneimalfadil@gmail.com Vingt ans de guerre plus tard, l’Afghanistan mérite bel et bien le surnom: “cimetière des empires”. En effet, beaucoup de puissances ont échoué à atteindre leurs objectifs escomptés après avoir passé des années dans cette zone éminemment montagneuse. Historiquement, les motifs des envahisseurs, entre autres, étaient de contrôler la voie de la soie et l’Inde, deux ambitions anciennes rénovées consistant clairement dans l’impérialisme et le contrôle des ressources. Récemment, ces deux fameux…
- Columns
Has Medication Become a Luxury?!
Al-Sammani Awadallah The recent policies adopted by the transitional government in lifting subsidies on the essential commodities have harmed the lives of the citizens and led to more suffering besides its expanding the poverty circle and disappointment. However, there are essential commodities that the citizens could not have any alternatives to it to ease their suffering. The right to get medical treatment is one of the basic rights, but freeing the medicine US Dollar exchange…
- Life Style
Diversity: an Abstract Exhibition at the National Council for the Sponsorship of Culture and the Arts
Staff Writer Under the title “Diversity”, the group abstract exhibition comes in order to enrich the abstract art scene with a diversity of culture and form. Providing the cultural arena with a lot of visual creativity, considering that abstract art is the most important form of cultural expression and it helps in beautifying artistic taste, Expanding the visual field, and bringing in new blood to the abstract art scene through the practice of artistic activity…
- Reports
Investing in Sustainable Development in Africa, the Top Priority for Agricultural Development
Shawgei Salah AhmedShwgy2000@gmail.com Africa has witnessed wide changes and radical differences since the beginning of this century, making it the focus of everyone’s attention in various fields, whether the fields of energy, entrepreneurship, social development, civilized construction of cities, or various fields of industrialization, as it possesses all the human and natural ingredients that help in its rapid renaissance in a time Standard, but the important question to ask is what does Africa want from…
- Columns
Slaughterhouses required!
Osman Mirghani Minister of Animal Wealth, Dr. Hafiz Ibrahim happened to affirm that Sudan needs 50 slaughterhouses out of which only 10 are available, describing Al-Kadaru slaughterhouse as the most modern and also the biggest in Sudan. A few years ago the Chinese Ambassador spoke about a modern slaughterhouse to be established in Khartoum with a cost of US$80 million, but it seems that the project has vanished within the unstable relation between the two…
- Columns
The Vicious Circle Is Still Working
Omer B. Abu Haraz From what is happening now and since the ousting of the longest autocratic rule of the Islamic Salvation regime, it is clear that Sudan is still right in the middle of the loopholes of the vicious circle of the short democratic rule followed by the long autocratic military regime. The British colonization to Sudan in 1898 after defeating the Mahdia Islamic Rule (1885 – 1898) stayed in power for 58 years.…
- Columns
I am Secular! (2 – 2)
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Secularism Is Not Atheism Atheism is a lack of belief in gods. Secularism simply provides a framework for a democratic society. Atheists have an obvious interest in supporting secularism, but secularism itself does not seek to challenge the tenets of any particular religion or belief, neither does it seek to impose atheism on anyone. Secularism is simply a framework for ensuring equality throughout society – in politics, education, the law, and elsewhere…