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“Made in Sudan” Exhibition Kicks Off Sunday
Haffiya Abdalla Khartoum — The Ministry of Industry, in cooperation with the Chambers of Industries Association and the Sudanese Company for Free Zones and Companies announced the launching of the “Made in Sudan” exhibition from March 27 until April 7. The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Industry in cooperation with the Chambers of Industries Association and Sudanese Free Zones and Markets Company. Representative of the Minister of Industry, Director of Investment, Dr.Nuha Mohamed Ahmed,…
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Sovereignty Council VP Dagalo and Council Member Dr. Salma Address Populace in Al-Aghar Village in Al-Manaqil Locality
Staff Writer Al-Manaqil – 25/03/2022 — The Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, affirmed the government’s commitment to buying wheat at encouraging prices to build up the strategic stock, given that the food problem is the number one issue in the world. During his address today, the mass meeting in the village of (3) Al-Aghar in Al-Manaqil locality, in the presence of a member of the Sovereignty Council, Dr. Salma Abdul-Jabbar Al-Mubarak,…
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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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A National Component Is Better
Osman Mirghani One of the most significant aspects of the Sudanese crisis is the making of hatred which divides the components of the Sudanese state into antagonistic particles e.g. the military component in the confrontation of the civilian component. This division emerged at the beginning of the December revolution to describe the partnership between the military and the civilian components in the sovereign council as stipulated in the constitutional document, but unfortunately, the concept of…
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A Proposal for a New Constitutional Framework
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid In my opinion, an accepted & welcomed initiative to resolve the current Sudanese crisis should be based on two pillars: A) A new constitutional procedure according to which the constitutional document of 2019 will be amended or canceled, and replaced with a new one to govern the remaining term of the transitional period, which I suggest to be extended to another twenty-four months from the date of signing the new constitutional…
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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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Sovereign Council Chairman Meets Chinese Envoy for Middle East affairs
Staff Writer Khartoum 03/22/2022 — The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdulfattah Al-Burhan, praised the growing efforts undertaken by the People’s Republic of China in supporting the transitional period and its keenness to strengthen and develop bilateral relations between the two countries and closely follow up on events and developments, praising the depth of the historical and rooted ties between the two countries. Sudan and China as strategic partners. The Chairman of…
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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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Sudan in a Precarious Juncture
Omer B. Abu Haraz The British Philosopher David Russell once said: “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” Sudan is now at a cross-road, one leading to safety and the other to uncertainty and chaos. The prevailing governance after the military coup of October 25th, 2021 is putting the country in a precarious juncture right before the two bridges, one leading to Heaven and the other…