Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Sudan'
Possible Crimes against Humanity in Southern Sudan
by Maeve McClenaghan, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, UK - The indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilians in the south of Sudan could amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report....
The Call of Sudanese Women Human Rights Defenders
by Nazik Kabalo, Pambazuka, Kenya - Women activists challenging the fundamental structures of their communities and calling for new terms of peaceful coexistence among the Sudanese people are facing prosecution, sexual violence and harsh punishment by security forces....
Sudan’s Activists Face Rape, One Fights Back
by Louise Hogan, Women Under Siege, USA - This horrific, brutal attack on Ishaq was neither random nor purposeless. The NISS agents deliberately mentioned they knew of her activities. Her rape and torture was meant as a punishment for her...
In the Face of Censorship, #SudanRevolts Goes Social
by Eszter Farkas, European Media Centre, The Netherlands - Serious North Africa news junkies are likely aware of growing demands for regime change in Sudan. Protests have spread outward from the capital Khartoum over the past few weeks. Hundreds of...
The Sound of Southern Sudan
by Hannah McNeish, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - "You see -- if there is oil here, Bashir comes, if there is oil there, he goes that way. You see? This will go on and on," until Khartoum sees the...
South Sudan: The Scramble for Land
by Nisrin Elamin, Pambazuka, Kenya - On 9 July 2011 South Sudan became Africa’s 54th nation, after the vast majority of its people voted for secession from the North. The ink has barely dried on the documents formalising South Sudan’s...
How the Arab World Lost Southern Sudan
by Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Both pan-Arabist and Islamist governments have failed to embrace diversity and pluralism - to their own detriment....
Spirits High in South Sudan Despite Unresolved Issues
by Miriam Gathigah, IPS, Italy - As South Sudan prepares to cede from the North, it faces tremendous challenges towards building a nation and a sense of nationhood....
Birth of the Other Sudan
by Asmaa El-Husseini, Al-Ahram, Egypt - As the new southern state is born, there is hope, as well as concern, in the two Sudans....
Turks in Africa
by Ayse Karabat, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkey wants to remain a permanent factor in Africa, it must criticize wrongdoing and find a way to transfer its experience, but not in the manner of “white men coming to teach Africa.”...
Sudan Was already Divided, but We Didn't Know it then
by Fatima Saeed, The National, UAE - Why should Sudan remain one country when there is this unbridgeable gap in society and culture? I consider myself as an example, one of many in the north who for so long ignored...
Sudan's Ex-Revolutionaries Warn Egypt to Be Wary
by Opheera McDoom, Reuters, UK - Egypt's protesters should take care that the army and the political parties do not hijack their successful overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and they should not rush to the polls, leaders of Sudan's intifada of...
'Leaving Bitterness Behind'
by Danna Harman, Ha'aretz, Israel - As his country begins the countdown to independence, legendary South Sudanese commander Gen. Joseph Lagu talks about days gone by, and of his people's secret ties with Israel. In each country he used a...
New Republic: South Sudan Is Free, But Darfur Flails
by Rebecca Hamilton, NPR, USA - The Obama administration has come dangerously close to perpetuating Khartoum's propaganda....
My Camera and Me Against a Regime
by Nagla Seed Ahmed, World Pulse, USA - Arrested during December's anti-flogging demonstrations in Sudan, Nagla Seed Ahmed and 49 other detained protesters recorded footage from within the jail walls—despite authorities' attempts to confiscate their cameras....
Sudanese in Kenya Vote for Secession
by Sarah Wambui, Capital FM, Kenya - Southern Sudan residents in Kenya have overwhelmingly voted in favour of secession from the north with more than 98.5 percent choosing independence....
Sudan: The Price of Separation
by Nisrin Elamin, Pambazuka, Kenya - The Sudanese government failed to make unity a viable option for Southerners. Over the past six years, rather than making strides towards equitably sharing wealth and political power with the South, the Khartoum regime...
Women’s Citizenship: Implications of the Southern Sudan Referendum
by Leni Wild and Pilar Domingo, 50.50, UK - How will the outcome of the South Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and activism in the North and South?...
Repatriated Sudanese Kids Didn't Get Chance to Say Goodbye
by Dana Weiler-Polak and Or Kashti, Ha'aretz, Israel - Advocates worry about 150 asylum seekers sent back; children's school principal fails to understand why secrecy was necessary....
Sudan's Oil Transforms from Curse into Blessing
by Opheera McDoom, Reuters, UK - Oil inflamed Sudan's civil war for decades but could now help seal the peace as the south becomes independent and needs the north to refine its crude....
South Sudanese Begin Exodus from the North
by Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Al Jazeera, Qatar - If you drive around Khartoum, one can easily forget that soon there is a referendum that could change the borders of Sudan forever....
Sudan Still Sentencing Minors to Death
by Reem Abbas, Inter Press Service, Italy - Four minors are among nine people who have been sentenced to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit in South Darfur. The case has raised fresh concerns over protection for children's rights...
Sudan at the Centre
by Doaa El-Bey, Al-Ahram, Egypt - Egypt is continuing to try to calm down the situation in Sudan and help the two ruling parties resolve the issues obstructing the smooth holding of a self-determination referendum in southern Sudan....
Southern Sudan Must Wean Itself From the Aid Bandwagon
by Rasna Warah, Daily Nation, Kenya - Rich donors to Africa have a tendency to take credit for many of the continent’s achievements. But donor interventions in Africa are not always altruistic, and are quite often detrimental. Sceptics have often...
Salvaging Sudan?
by Gamal Nkrumah, Al-Ahram, Egypt - Khartoum's refusal to placate the southern Sudanese by separating the state from religion has strengthened the hand of separatist forces in the run-up to next year's referendum....
Darfur Suffers While the World Looks Away
by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - Darfur is seen either as an epiphenomenon of the larger problem of Sudan and the South, or as a potential money/power making enterprise for corrupt individuals and governments....
Cowering in Fear
by Elizabeth Palchik Allen, The New Republic, USA - Sudan's president has been charged with genocide—so why aren't African nations confronting him?...
Transparency A Must In Sudan's North-South Oil Negotiations
by Rosie Sharpe, Oye! Times, Canada - A fair and transparent arrangement for sharing and monitoring the revenues from Sudan’s oil fields should be a top priority for negotiators from north and south Sudan who begin talks today....
Cairo and Khartoum Challenged
by Reem Leila, Al-Ahram, Egypt - Tension over the sharing of River Nile waters is rising. The 18th meeting of the Nile Council of Ministries took place recently. Ethiopia's push for the the new Nile Framework Agreement(signed by 5...
African Women Win Promise of U.S. Protection
by Rebecca Harshbarger, Women's eNews, USA - Obama earlier this week signed the most widely co-sponsored Africa-specific law in U.S. history. Supporters hope it will defend women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Sudan from further...
Sudan Elections Turned into a Lie that Cannot Live
by Hala Al-Karib, Sudan Tribune, France - Sudanese people have tried and yet are continuously alienated by the naivety and shortsightedness of the international political actors, the tyranny and greed of the national unity government, the same government that is...
Sudan's Election Boycott: The Underside
by Julie Flint, The Daily Star, Lebanon - The Sudanese elections currently underway were never going to be easy. The figures alone are daunting....
Why Oil is Critical in Preventing a Return to War in Sudan
by Rosie Sharpe, The East African, Kenya - While there are many outstanding issues in the implementation of the 2005 Sudanese peace deal, the issue of sharing oil revenue stands out as potentially decisive, and could lead to a...
A Final Move to Exterminate the People of Darfur
by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - Recent months have witnessed an attempt to shift attention away from Darfur, yet the situation in the West of Sudan is anything but quiet....
SOUTH SUDAN: Women's Eyes on the Political Prize
by Miriam Gathigah, IPS, Italy - January marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which ended a bitter north-south civil war in Sudan. With important elections scheduled for April, women are debating and fighting for an expanded...
Drought and Conflict in South Sudan
by Helen Mould, Al Jazeera, Qatar - There are currently in excess of 350,000 people who have been displaced by inter-ethnic conflict in south Sudan, largely due to growing tensions over scarce resources such as water, as well as an...
Sudan's New Year of Fear
by Ros Wynne-Jones, Guardian, UK - The peace deal that ended what was Africa's longest-running conflict is on the brink of collapse....
Sudan Is Still the Issue
by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Sudan’s oil deposits have made it one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, yet ‘violence, disease and malnutrition’ continue to kill its people....
Diversionary Tactics on Darfur
by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - The real tragedy of Darfur – the suffering of its people – has been forgotten under a sea of pointless initiatives, all of which seem to have only one goal in mind: to...
Storm Clouds over Sudan
by Asmaa El-Husseini, Al-Ahram, Egypt - News of the humanitarian crisis and inter-tribal violence in Sudan contains dire warnings for the country's future....
Social Stigma Surrounds Aids in Sudan
by Nicole Johnston, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In Sudan, people living with Aids are faced with prejudices and ignorance about their disease....
Public Flogging Holds No Fear for Woman Who Dared Wear Trousers
by Katherine Butler, Independent, UK - "This kind of thing is going on all the time in Sudan for young women who are weak and unable to stand up for their rights...It is a means of harassing them and limiting...
Who Wears the Trousers in Sudan?
by Nesrine Malik, Guardian, UK - By flogging women for wearing trousers, the Sudanese government shows its fear of challenges to the status quo....
What Can Sudan Learn from Iran’s Green Revolution?
by Dalia Haj-Omar, Sudan Tribune, France - What is happening in Iran is a window of opportunity for Sudanese civil society to show that it is part of a global movement that has universal values and aspirations. It is also...
Guns, Children and Cattle Are the New Currency of War in Southern Sudan
by Tracy McVeigh, Guardian, UK - Africa's longest-running civil war is over and a new country is supposed to grow out of it. But there are few schools or roads and the people live in fear of kidnap and death....
Sudan: Nobel Laureates Demand Women Be Part of Peace Talks
by Marina Litvinsky, IPS, Italy - The international community must act immediately to resolve the political and humanitarian crises facing Sudan, said a panel of leading Sudan experts at a briefing here Tuesday, and ensure that any peace process formally...
On "Saving" Darfur … and Africa in General
by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - The obnoxious reality is that there is a business to “saving” Africans in Darfur (and elsewhere for that matter). It is a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars....
Uneasy Peace in Sudan Ghost Town
by Amber Henshaw, BBC, UK - Four years after the signing of a peace deal to end two decades of conflict between north and south Sudan, the disputed central town of Abyei resembles a ghost town....
An End to Impunity in Darfur
by Jody Williams and Shirin Ebadi, Guardian, UK - The International Criminal Court needs international support to bring Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, to justice for genocide....
Justice Delayed is Diplomacy Denied
by Betwa Sharma, Indian Express, India - The UN estimates that 300,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in the Darfur fighting between black African rebels and Government forces for control of resources, land and water. The rebels...
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