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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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Investment Projects in the Qarri Free Zones to Open
Haffiya Abdalla Khartoum — The Director of Qarri Zone, Mortada Mohammad Ismail, pointed out the efforts being held, partnerships, and large investment activities, and pointed to the weakness of local national investments in the free zone. He announced an intensive meeting with the Bank of Sudan and Sudanese banks to address the problem of remittances and financing, referring to addressing some banks to form partnerships regarding finance. He pointed to offering 16 acres for agricultural investment…
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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 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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Steps Towards Achieving Justice and Human Rights in Sudan
Haffiya Abdalla On 25 September 2019, a landmark Host Country Agreement was signed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Government of Sudan, paving the way for the establishment of a fully mandated UN Human Rights office in Sudan including four field offices in Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and East Sudan. OHCHR received the full support of the Government of Sudan for the swift deployment of the start-up team to Khartoum…
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Launching of Initiative “In Love with Sudan”
The Nile Street in Khartoum is One of the Most Important and Beautiful Streets of the capital of Sudan, and One of Its Prominent Landmarks Haffiya Abdalla Nile Street in Khartoum is one of the most important and most beautiful streets of the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, and one of its prominent landmarks. It is overlooked by the most important centers of governance, politics, economy, and culture in Sudan. The Governor of Khartoum State, Al…