Tag Archives: Nuba Mountain

Sudan: Will Bashir Visit Juba?

By Luka Biong Deng With the signing of the implementation matrix for the nine agreements signed by South Sudan and Sudan in September 2012, there is now a growing optimism in the normalization of relations between South Sudan and Sudan. … read more »

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South Sudan: ‘Stop the Planes’–Now!

Analysis The plea could hardly be simpler, or more urgent: “Just stop the planes.” This cry for help came from “Khadija,” a woman interviewed by Amnesty International (see below) while standing in front of the bombed remains of her home … read more »

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Blue Nile Emerging: Horrors without end and a familiar international acquiescence

By Eric Reeves Three recent assessments missions to Blue Nile have powerfully expanded our view of the vast crisis in this desperate region, as well as of the better reported humanitarian crisis engineered by Khartoum in the Nuba Mountains of … read more »

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Sudan Development Conference: Germans need to re-confront their past

By Eric Reeves On January 29, 2013 a development conference, designed to promote international investment in Sudan, will be held in Berlin, Germany—sponsored by the German government with very little other European or U.S. support. This lack of support forced … read more »

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Sudan cracks down on South Sudanese Christians

by ASSIST News Service Sudanese authorities rang in the new year by bulldozing a church building outside Khartoum because it belonged to Christians of South Sudanese origin and lacked a permit, a source said. According to a story by Morning … read more »

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South Sudanese authorities should investigate columnist’s murder

Authorities in South Sudan should thoroughly investigate the murder of an online journalist, identify the motive, and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Diing Chan Awuol, who went by the penname “Isaiah Abraham,” was … read more »

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The SPLM-N factor in Sudan-South Sudan border hostilities

By Machien Luoi The September 27, 2012 – Addis Ababa Cooperation Agreement signed by Sudan and South Sudan is getting undermined by Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement-North Sudan (SPLM-N) activities and presence along the common border of the two countries. The … read more »

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Khartoum’s foiled attempt, coup d’état or gigantic hoax?

By Mahmoud A. Suleiman This article comes against the backdrop of the Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services’ (NISS) revelation that they have pre-emptively foiled an alleged subversive plot (attempted coup d’état) spearheaded by opposition forces both civilian and military … read more »

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Sudan’s Forgotten War

After years of war in Sudan, Bernard-Henri Lévy asks Yasir Arman, secretary-general of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement, what the world can do to stop the violence.   A dozen years ago, Jean-Marie Colombani and Edwy Plenel at the French … read more »

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Why Sudan’s Peace Agreements Fail

By Anne Bartlett, opinion Einstein once quipped that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Given this point, one might suggest that recent agreements on borders, security and peace in … read more »

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Israeli bureaucracy leaves Sudanese vulnerable to arrest

Sudanese refugees from the Nuba Mountains are being registered by Israel’s Interior Ministry as South Sudanese, making it difficult for them to find and keep work, pay for rent, bills, or food, and subjecting them to potential arrest and deportation. By Natasha … read more »

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Sudan: Race-based violence and torture

Osman Naway Jalila Khmais Koko is a Nuba woman activist detained eight months ago for calling for peace and helping her peoples fleeing the war in Nuba Mountains to safe places such as the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Jalila’s humble house … read more »

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An open letter to Princeton Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan

Department of State Washington, DC Dear Ambassador Lyman: I write to you to express my profound dismay at the character of Obama administration responses to the various political and humanitarian crises that continue to define greater Sudan. I wish in … read more »

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Sudan: Change is the only road to peace

By Yasir Arman I was asked by the organisers of this august institution to speak about ’Darfur, South Kordofan, Blue Nile, Khartoum… prospects for a peaceful solution’. I come from a school of thought that believes Darfur, South Kordofan/Nuba Mountain, … read more »

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Fleeing from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

They arrive here in small groups – mothers with belongings balanced on weary heads, often carrying a baby too, with a few children dragging tired heels as they struggle to keep up. The families’ water buckets are usually empty after … read more »

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Understanding state sponsored violence in Sudan

By Anne Bartlett There is an old Indian story about a group of blind men and an elephant, which does a remarkable job of illustrating exactly how the NCP has managed to get away with its campaign of bullying and … read more »

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Sudan’s Nuba Mountain People Starved and Bombed

For almost a year now the Islamist Government of Sudan regime in Khartoum has been conducting an extermination campaign against the black, African Nuba Mountain people of South Kordofan. Aerial bombardment, house to house searches and executions, and evidence of … read more »

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