Reports
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Silencing the Guns, Returnees from War Issues: Steps to Sustainable Development in Africa
Shawgei Salah Ahmed – Khartoum Sustainable development in any place cannot be really sustainable without the presence of security and safety. From this aspect, Africa loses more time and resources whenever the time for resolving armed conflicts in its countries increases. Armed conflicts across the African continent have resulted in the deaths of 3.1 to 3.5 million infants (6.6 to 7.3 of all infant deaths over the past 20 years), about 4.9 to 5.5 million…
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GERD: Upstream and Downstream States; Who will win the Round?
Al-Sammani Awadallah – Khartoum The talks over GERD have raised fears among all of Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia as each has its reservations towards the process of the second filling. Ethiopia is insisting to go ahead in the filling even if no agreement is reached among the three countries; but Sudan and Egypt felt the danger of the Ethiopian step. The recent coordination between Sudan and Egypt stirred the stalled waters in the talks over…
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Red Sea Alliance: Enhancing Security and Stability in the Region
Haffiya Abdalla – Khartoum Regional Cooperation Initiatives For decades, regional powers and international alliances have sought to govern and coordinate what goes on in the Red Sea. In 1974, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) launched the Regional Program for the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden to address the protection of the marine environment. The programme paved the way for the signing of the Regional Convention for the Conservation of…
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HAC NEW REGULATIONS STIFLE CIVIC SPACE – PART 2 OF 5 (FUNDING)
Civic Space Report In this second article we look at the regulation pertaining to the funding and receipt of funds by national organizations and present our findings and analysis on some of the important changes/elements that have been introduced. This article comes as the second article in a series of five articles that seeks to provide an understanding of some important provisons in these new regulations and the differences from the previous set of regulations…
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International Women’s Day 2021: Treat Women Kindly
Muawad Mustafa Rashid – Khartoum International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights. Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence; a future that’s sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all. To get us there, the world needs women at every table where decisions are being made. This year, the…
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Security Council urges Partners to make Democratic Transition in Sudan Successful
Brown Land- New York Members of the Security Council stressed on the importance for the transitional government to work with partners to address recent conflicts in West Darfur in a Tuesday session devoted to discussing the situation in Sudan. The council saw that the partners must work in helping Sudan out of the economic crisis, provide necessary support, and work for the success of the democratic transition in the country. The council members called on…
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El-Sisi warns against Grand Renaissance Dam in one-day visit to Khartoum
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has warned in his visit to Sudan against Ethiopia filling a giant dam built on the Nile River, according to a France 24 report. El-Sisi arrived Saturday at Khartoum’s international airport, on his way to meeting with Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Transitional Council, at the presidential palace. The Egyptian president also met with both Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, first deputy head of…
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Water security in Africa, the impact on sustainable development issues
By: Shawgei Salah Ahmed Shwgy2000@gmail.com Water is the source of life on Earth, generally, water covers about 71% of the earth’s surface, oceans and seas represent 96.5%, lakes represent 0.013%, rivers 0.0002%, the rest found in groundwater and Floating snow or moisture mixed with air. As for the salty water, represents about 97.5% of the total water on the surface of the earth and the rest represents fresh water. On the other hand, African continent…
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Setting Al-Tineidba camp for Ethiopian Refugees in Eastern Sudan
Great steps and efforts have been made towards rehabilitating the Umm Rakuba camp and Al-Tanaidba for Ethiopian refugees in the state of Gedaref in eastern Sudan, until it became one of the camps with international specifications as a result of the efforts made by the Turkish Humanitarian Aid Organization. The visit of the organization’s delegation had a great impact on preparing this camp through the number of tents and the tanks of water it provided…
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After the January 14, 2021 elections in Uganda
Museveni will he go to the presidency chair again or to the cage of the International Criminal Court? The tough rivalry between veteran Museveni and young Bobby knocks on the doors of the International Criminal Court, after the latter’s accusations of the current Ugandan president, who is looking forward to a new presidential term of forty years in the seat of government.01.Electoral systemThe President of Uganda is elected using the two-round system, with candidates needing…