Reports
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Workshop on COMESA Gender Policy Implementation Plan and Gender Planning Guidelines Convenes
Haffiya Abdalla Khartoum — Gender and Social Affairs Division in the COMESA Secretariat exists to promote and provide leadership, direction, and oversight towards the achievement of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE), Youth Empowerment, and Social and Cultural Development in the Member States, at the Secretariat and in COMESA Institutions. The Division sets out to achieve this purpose through promotion of the implementation of the COMESA Gender Policy, Gender Mainstreaming, Advocacy, and Capacity Building, implementation of…
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Integrated Public Health Teams: Helping Sudan Move Forward on Polio Transition
Haffiya Abdalla An important milestone in integrating 4 key public health programs was reached last week in Khartoum, Sudan. Staff from 4 critical areas of state-level health care – poliovirus eradication, immunization, health emergencies, and health system strengthening – met to operationalize their work across all 18 states in Sudan as integrated public health teams. This is a vital step in the polio transition agenda and in moving towards integration to ultimately serve the health…
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Sudan Participates in 66th Session of the Status of Women Commission, New York
“Achieving Gender Equality and the Empowerment of all Women and Girls” Haffiya Abdalla The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women is from the 14th to the 25th of March 2022. The priority theme: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programs; The Bureau of the Commission plays a crucial role in facilitating the preparation…
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Dagalo in Port Sudan: Objectives of the Visit
Al-Sammani Awadallah Vice President of the Sovereign Council, 1st Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has spent several days in Port Sudan, the capital city of the Red Sea State, during which he held intensive meetings after which several directives were issued to push forward the economic cycle besides refuting any allegations on about the ownership of Port Sudan harbor. No doubt the visit was timely as it comes after the widespread rumors that the Port…
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Children without Parental Care: The Right to Have a Good Life
Haffiya Abdalla Sudan has one of the highest rates of internally displaced people in the world: around four million people have had to leave their homes. Others have sought refuge in neighboring countries. SOS Children’s Villages has been present in Sudan since the mid-1970s when it began its work in the capital city of Khartoum. The armed conflicts, which have been going on for five decades, have had a devastating effect on the lives of…
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The United Nations Secretary-General Statement on the Covid-19 Pandemic; Two Years on
New York, 9 March 2022 — Two years ago, the lives of people around the globe were upended by a virus. COVID-19 spread quickly and relentlessly into every corner of the world — shutting down economies, choking off transportation networks and supply chains, closing schools, separating people from their loved ones, and plunging millions of people into poverty. The pandemic’s most tragic toll has been on the health and lives of millions, with more than 446…
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The 8th of March: International Women’s Day
“Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow” Haffiya Abdalla Women are the umbrella of everything, you must know that being a woman is a blessing from God, you have the power that no man has, which makes you carry the tasks of home, work, and children, as well as the problems of pregnancy and childbirth that no man can afford, and despite all these troubles, but you do not complain and do these tasks and…
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Sudan’s COVID-19 Response and Challenges
The Vaccine is Safe and Has been Approved by World Health Organisation (WHO) Haffiya Abdalla While the World Health Organization had issued treatment guidelines, adopted by the Ministry of Health, the lack of public awareness and confidence led many patients to use traditional local herbal medicines. The priority target groups for vaccination are healthcare workers at all levels of the health service, persons aged 60 years and more, and patients with comorbidities aged 45 years…
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Sudan Participates in the 15th Extraordinary Meeting of Executive Council of the (AWO)
Haffiya Abdalla Sudan Government has presented at the 15th extraordinary meeting of the Executive Council of the Arab Women Organization A proposal to take into account the geographical distribution in the appointment of employees, experts, and technicians The attendees discussed the agreement to establish the organization, especially the articles of the Supreme Council of the organization and the conference, and the participants stressed the importance of maintaining the Council and transferring it to the General…
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ITEC, an Excellent Example of the India-Africa Partnership
A Charming Sudanese Performance of a Bollywood Indian Song By Mekki ELMOGRABIPress Writer on African AffairsWhatsApp & Telegram +249912139350elmograbi@gmail.com “ITEC Day” was really Indo-Sudan Day in Khartoum. When the Sudanese student Hadel Diab was singing a charming Bollywood song, I remembered having a very nice discussion with an Indian diplomat about what it takes to develop the film and entertainment industry in Sudan with an experience from India. I am pretty sure that Sudanese music…