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Strategic Reasons for Investments in Sudan
Ahmed Hassan Hurga Sudan has set in motion a plan to create a political system responsive to the religious, cultural, and ethnic diversities putting the country on the road to full democratization. This is part of programs based on nationwide dialogue conferences, which produced proposals for making a system taking into consideration the vital interests of minorities and eradicating all symptoms of discontent. It is felt that people will get involved with more enthusiasm in…
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Hamdock’s Initiative & the Political Will
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid Last week, the Prime Minister, Dr. Abdullah Hamdock, launched an initiative entitled “National Crisis and Transition Issues, the Way Forward”. The responses varied between rejecting, supporting, and critical skeptics. The rejecting response, in my view, is negative & absurd. It doesn’t recognize that the man is calling on everyone to work together to get the country out of its current crisis, and no sane person can refuse that. The supporters considered…
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Sound Initiative
Muawad Mustafa Rashid A few months ago the office of the 1st Vice President of the Transitional Sovereign Council announced the establishment of Production Bank under the auspices of First Vice President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, 1st Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The initiative aims at encouraging and providing support to the production in terms of financing small and large-scale projects. The Production Bank targets 10 productive states and will provide financial assistance to…
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The United States of America Transforms Diplomatic Relations with Sudan from Strategic Engagement to the Status of Normal Bilateral Relations
Staff Writer The Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, met in her office today with Mrs. Amber Baskett, Chargé d’Affairs of the US Embassy in Khartoum, who conveyed to the Minister the decision of her country’s government to transfer the diplomatic relationship between the two countries to the status of normal relations instead of the pattern taken by the United States in managing its bilateral relations with Sudan According to what was known…
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Railways Transport, Locomotive of Economy
Neimat Al-Naiemneimatalnaiem@yahoo.com Transport plays a vital role in the economies of developed countries as well as the developing ones. The success of transport depends mainly on the well-constructed and established infrastructure. Countries set huge budgets for transport with its all kinds that the Air, Naval, River and land transport and railways transport is one of these important sorts of transport. It would be preferable among many people for it is cheaper and safety in compared…
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A Message in the Mail for the people of the Two Regions
Mohammed Al-Noorani The people of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions, belonging to the SPLM-North, played a major role in the combat, cultural, social, and political fields in those regions, informing citizens of their rights in development and services and participating in the administration of the state through its basic levels, all the way to the central. The issues of the two regions focus on the lack of development and services, as is the…
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Resolutions and More Resolutions!
Mohammed Saad Kamil The conclusion paragraph of the cabinet’s statement and after several indisputable resolutions read: Our generous people, “This meeting came, after 4 months from the formation of the peace government and setting the emergency plan in the recent close meeting, to review the previous plan and respond to the situations the country is witnessing in all aspects, besides setting another plan for urgent interventions based on clear indicators for the remaining six months…
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Sufism in Sudan
Muhammad Saad Sheikh Abd al-Wahhab al-Tarifi, one of the Sheikhs of the Qadiriyya Order, says: “Since their gradual and phased conversion to Islam, most of the Sudanese people of jurisprudence and religious sciences have not been fascinated by their complexities and entanglements, so they chose Sufism as a form of religiosity.” He added that “the local African cultures that were prevalent were reluctant to appropriate their customs and traditions, and this is what jurists and…
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Stranded Sudanese in India!
Osman Mirghani India is one of the favorite countries to Sudanese for several reasons among which is medical treatment when they have to travel abroad for medication. The relations between Sudan and India is deep-rooted for a long time when the Indian migrates came to Sudan and started their business and settled when they found a conducive environment to coexist with the Sudanese people. Accordingly, they entered into intermarriages and grew several generations which contributed…
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International intervention Is Imminent
Omer B. Abu Haraz A pearl of conventional wisdom: “If you are not confused, you are misinformed.” Last week Dr. Hamdok, prime minister of the transitional government addressed the nation in seemingly emotional words about the current precarious conditions in the country which followed the decision to lift subsidy on fuel. Although many people described the speech as emotional, I believe it is not. Hamdok in his speech sent very serious and alarming signals. Alarming…