Muawad Mustafa Rashid
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Environmental Forum: A Step Forward in the Right Direction
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Introduction: With the growth of catastrophic environmental phenomena worldwide and the effects of climate change on society, especially in recent years, represented by floods, rising temperatures, fluctuations in rain rates, and other effects, what prompts us to air a sincere national appeal to avoid the certain losses which will inevitably affect all of us. Allah the Almighty granted our country with rich natural resources that are among the first in the global…
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Are We Going to Find the Key?
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The brotherhood is an extremely hungry power. Its membership is famished! Their dreams, plans, and ambitions are to be running around trying to abort the peace process. Unfortunately, they still have an indirect influence on our policy. Don’t they? The transitional caretaker government seems to have no potential to change Sudan’s political landscape. Because of this reason precisely, the country’s image has become blurry. Years ago, we stressed that the timing of…
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Malnutrition and the School Meal: Alarm Bell
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Specialized reports revealed the existence of more than 6 million children in Sudan suffering from hunger and needing at least school meals to curb the drop-out phenomenon, besides reducing the rate of stunted growth among school kids. Globally nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributed to nutrition, undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and delays…
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Food Security: Pipe Dreams
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The Minister of Finance affirmed while addressing the Arab Food Security Initiative scientific forum which took place in Al-Shariga Hall at the University of Khartoum last week, that there is a shortage in providing accurate information about the soil and the quantities of water and that is due to the failure of utilizing the natural resources of the country to the maximum. What our honorable Minister said is not new and is…
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The Significance of the US Ambassador’s Arrival in Khartoum
Muawad Mustafa Rashid According to a media notice issued by the Public Diplomacy Section of the Embassy of the United States of America in Khartoum, Ambassador John Godfrey, the first US Ambassador to Sudan in nearly 25 years, arrived in Khartoum. The notice added “As a senior representative of the US Government, Ambassador Godfrey will work to strengthen relations between the American and Sudanese people and to support their aspirations to freedom, justice, and a…
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Social Responsibility Obligation Revisited
Muawad Mustafa Rashid In the news Vice President and the Sovereign Council, RSP Commander-in-Chief 1st lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who landed in the floods’ affected areas in River Nile State accompanied by top officials from the central government and River Nile State, expressed his sympathy to those affected, adding that he came by himself to inspect the impact of those floods on the people of the area, pledging to provide all possible support to…
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Trojan Horse!
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The so-called (Sudanese People’s Call for National Reconciliation) launched by the Sheikh of a Sufi Order, El-Tayeb Al-Jid, is facing several internal and external challenges, especially after most of the social, political, and youth sectors agreed that the initiative represents a political incubator for the ousted regime. This means that the initiative is isolated from the forces of the revolution as the latter do not want to retract and accept the return…
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Comments on the CNN Investigative Report
Muawad Mustafa Rashid A network of Russian and Sudanese military leaders are colluding to plunder Sudan’s gold reserves and production, enabling Moscow to fund its ongoing war in Ukraine amidst increasingly severe Western sanctions, a CNN report published recently has claimed. According to CNN’s sources, Russia allegedly operated 16 flights out of Sudan, Africa’s third largest producer of precious metal, over the past 18 months. CNN claimed a whistleblower from inside the Sudanese Central Bank…
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Armed Movements Fragmentation Controversy
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The fragmentation of the armed movements raises concerns about the possibility of the ability to achieve stabilization in the areas that have witnessed civil strife that lasted for almost three decades. According to estimates, there are more than 87 armed movements in Sudan, 83 of which are in the Darfur area. Observers suggest that the proliferation of the armed movements is a result of old politics adopted by the Islamic Movement regime…
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Darfur: The Quest for War and Peace
Muawad Mustafa Rashid As the rainy season is inching, most Darfur inhabitants start their preparations for the fertility period in this rich region with its natural resources. This period is considered the season of welfare, but at the same time, the social concerns escalate fearing the eruption of tribal clashes between the farmers and cattle-herders over the water resources and grazing areas. Recently, the tribal clashes escalated not only in the rainy season but all…