Socio, culturale, politico, tradizioni sudanese.
sabato 5 aprile 2014
Donate for the displaced people.
East Sudan.... and Italian ambassadore colaborating with EUROPEAN COMUNITY.
The National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum hosted the launch ceremony of the new health services programmers in eastern Sudan on 31, March, 8:00, pm. The programmed, “Promoting Qualitative Health Services in Eastern Sudan,” is funded by the European Union and will be implemented by the Italian Development Cooperation and Embassy of Italy.
The event was attended by Assistant of the President, Musa Mohamed Ahmed, diplomats and hundreds of Sudanese guests related to health services in Sudan, according to a joint statement of the Delegation of the European Union to Sudan and the Embassy of Italy-Italian Cooperation issued.
The main goal of the EU-Italian project is to increase the access and improve quality of health care for the most vulnerable communities and improve efficiency of health system in Eastern Sudan. The new project amounts to 12,8 million Euros, totally funded by the EU, and will be implemented by the Italian Cooperation in Kassala, Gedarif, and the Red Sea States till the year 2016.
Thousands of health staff and front line providers will be trained in collaboration with Academies of Health Science, with the aim of an increased capacity of the staff in the Health Ministries of the eastern Sudanese States, and other local health authorities. A number of health facilities will be built to broaden the infrastructures of health care. At the same time the project will work on an increase of medicines availability through improving the procurement and delivery processes to eastern Sudan. In addition, an emergency care system will be developed at both the localities and the States level.
The European Union and the Embassy of Italy jointly launched one of the major health projects in Eastern Sudan. The project was signed in November 2013 during the European Ambassadors visit to East Sudan in a ceremony attended by H.E. Mr. Musa Mohamed Ahmed, Assistant to the President and the governors of Gedarif and Kassala.
The project is expected to achieve five targets. First is to train thousands of health staff and front line providers in collaboration with Academies of Health Science. Second, the project will result in the increased capacity of the staff in the Health Ministries of the Eastern States and other Local Health Authorities. Third, a number of health buildings will be built and rehabilitated to broaden the infrastructures of healthcare. Fourth, the project will increase the medicines availability through improving the procurement and delivery processes to East Sudan. Fifth, the project will develop an emergency care system at both the localities and the States level. Finally, the project will promote community health awareness, support health education and strengthen the health information systems. The program will be run in close coordination with the Federal Ministry of Health, the State Ministries of Health, and local government in each locality.
Ambassador Tomas Ulicny, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan said that the program of Promoting Qualitative Health Services in Eastern Sudan is a European commitment to increase the dividends for peace in Sudan. The people of East Sudan are in need for basic development and services which is what the European Ambassadors observed during their last joint visit to Kassala and the Red Sea in 2013, he added. Ambassador Tomas explained that the European Union funding comes from all the European countries to confirm the EU solidarity to support peace and stability for the people of Sudan. Ambassador Tomas called on the local and Federal authorities to support and facilitate the implementation of the program to achieve its end goals.
Ambassador Armando Barucco considers this grant as the result of Italian Cooperation’s commitment to strengthen the health system in Eastern Sudan in the last five years. He added: “Italian experts have already started with preparatory works for the program and we will do our best in ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of our actions. Italy will be accountable to the People of Sudan and the other States, which are part of the European Union, for what we set to achieve in the next three years”.
From our side as Sudanese we are applaud and support this great achievement and all the great efforts made ??by the European Union in the Sudan and the Italian Embassy in Khartoum in various fields of economic, social, cultural and health in all parts of Sudan and their important role in community development and evolution.
By Mohammed Awad Mahmoud Osman, 01/04/2014
venerdì 4 aprile 2014
Africa quando si mette in regola come il mondo moderno!!!!
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Circa 15 milioni di persone vivono e lavorano in tutto il mondo raccogliendo e riciclando rifiuti. Tra questi, i più vulnerabili sono le donne e i bambini. Tuttavia, questa attività inizia ad essere vista anche come un contributo positivo in quanto porta risparmio economico ai Comuni e contribuisce alla pulizia delle città dove non è previsto alcun bilancio per questa attività. Inoltre le persone coinvolte iniziano ad organizzarsi e a convincersi che il loro lavoro tra i rifiuti sia un’occupazione degna come qualsiasi altra, che permette loro di guadagnarsi da vivere. Raccolgono la spazzatura, la separano e la riciclano.
Per far fronte al fenomeno, a Cobán (Guatemala), Phnom Penh (Cambogia) e Akouedo (Costa d’Avorio), l’ong cattolica spagnola Manos Unidas sta portando avanti dei progetti per contrastare povertà, disuguaglianza e ingiustizie. A Cobán, dove si registra il maggiore tasso di povertà di tutto il Paese e bambini e giovani sono candidati al crimine organizzato, ad entrare nelle bande armate e alla delinquenza comune, l’ong spagnola sta collaborando con l’Asociación Comunidad Esperanza, per ampliare il Centro di Formazione Integrale Ciudad de la Esperanza, che offre a giovani e bambini, prevalentemente indigeni, la possibilità di accedere all’istruzione infantile primaria, di base e all’università, oltre a laboratori di formazione professionale e di arte. Ad Akouedo, un villaggio periferico di Abidjan, si trova il principale centro di raccolta di rifiuti dell’ovest dell’Africa. In questo luogo inospitale lavorano migliaia di bambini tra i 5 e i 15 anni, esposti alla miseria, all’Aids , agli abusi e alla prostituzione. I membri della comunità della zona hanno ottenuto un terreno e costruito un centro dove vengono assistiti 89 bambini. La crescita economica vertiginosa che sta sperimentando Phnom Penh, la capitale della Cambogia, sta accentuando le differenze tra ricchi e poveri, e migliaia di famiglie sono state sfrattate ed espulse verso le zone periurbane, facendo accampare i raccoglitori di rifiuti in baraccopoli senza elettricità e senza acqua potabile, costringendoli a percorrere 10 km al giorno per lavorare 12 ore guadagnando un dollaro. (AP) (4/4/2014 Agenzia Fides)
Sequestrata la stampa comunista Sudanese.
Sudan security agents seize Communist newspaper
Sudanese state security agents have seized copies of the Communist party newspaper one month after it was allowed to resume publishing following a two-year shutdown, the editor said on Thursday.
The seizure of Al-Midan comes despite government claims that freedoms are widening in the country.
"It was prevented from circulating three times this week, on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday," Madiha Abdullah, chief editor of the thrice-weekly publication, told AFP.
"They took copies from the printer without giving any reasons."
Sudan's press council informed Al-Midan in early March that it could publish again after about two years.
Staff had said that security agents prevented Al-Midan's distribution 13 times in one month, effectively halting its presses in 2012, although it continued publishing on the Internet.
In January, President Omar al-Bashir appealed for a broad national political dialogue in his country ravaged by war, poverty and political turmoil.
As part of what he called a political and economic renaissance, Bashir said: "The freedom of people has to be respected."
Since then journalists have complained that various newspapers were being seized at the presses, even as others including Al-Midan were authorised to resume publishing after bans.
Critics say Bashir's political dialogue is just a way for the elite to hang on to power without properly addressing the country's problems.
"Freedom is one of the main issues under discussion" in the dialogue with political parties, Bashir's top assistant, Ibrahim Ghandour, told AFP in an interview last week.
"What we need on freedoms is to agree on what is white, what is black and what is grey," and on the mechanisms which should be used to resolve disagreements, he said.
Political parties are free to hold rallies outside their headquarters, and "all banned newspapers were now released," Ghandour said.
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giovedì 3 aprile 2014
Fisherwoman interview.
The Sudan possesses vast and diverse water surfaces which host tremendous fish resources of numerous species, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimating the Sudan’s fish stock at around 110,000 tons. The irrigation dams, lakes and reservoirs (hafirs) are regarded suitable for fish production, backed up by fish rearing.
Sudanow.info had a conversation with Fisherwoman Huda Mohamed Abdul Hamid Khalil in Jebel Awlia region, about 50 km south of Khartoum, who spoke about her fishing experience.
Q: Would you please introduce yourself?
A: my name is Huda Mohamed Abdul Hamid Khalil, a fisher-woman, married with two sons and two daughters. I’m the owner of Al-Huda Fish Company in Jebel Awlia with a branch in Al-Dubasin on the White Nile.
Q: When have you begun practicing this job?
A :Am in this business since 1972. My partner used to be my husband but I have begun to operate independently by myself since 1989. I like this job which I have learnt since I was six years of age.
Q: Who works with you on this business?
A: At first I used to work by myself, catching fish late into the night and despite the hardships and sleeplessness, I felt very happy. But now I have become incapable of taking the nets to the river after undergoing an optical surgery and the doctors advised me not carry heavy things. At first I employed 12 persons for work on the boats but now the number was cut to two persons plus six others who salt the fish and place it in refrigerators.
Q: Do you have any job other than fishing?
A: fishing is my main business but we have of late started grilling and selling fish to customers for increasing the income, upgrading the economic and financial capabilities of the workers and securing an extra earning to cope with the day-to-day cost of living.
Q: Who are your normal customers?
A: Customers of all ages, including foreigners living in the Sudan, students and families.
Q: Which fairs have you taken part in?
A:I participated in an agricultural exhibition in Syria and also in Egypt, Dubai and China and locally I took part in a Port Sudan exhibition as well as all fairs organized by the universities and in 1996 I was accorded the Development and Peace decoration.
Q: Are you planning to establish projects in accompaniment of the fishing business?
A: Of course, am planning to establish a poultry project as well as another project for making use of some weeds such as a type which is used for making roofs and as fish fodder and yet a third project of catching a certain kind of fish with the fish-hook in a number of locations in the White Nile which is sold at high prices.
Q: Is there any negative effect by the dams on fishing?
A: We have a problem caused by the turbines which have now got lower than their previous levels and this resulted in chopping heads of the parent fishes and consequently threatening fish extinction. The high current caused by the powerful flow of water from the dams also has an adverse impact on our production.
Q: How many fishing boats are operating in the Dam area?
A: There are 250 boats each operated by two fishermen. The fishing is practiced according to the level of the Nile water. The winter season stretches from October to January, followed by a period from February to June during the operations extend from the White Nile to the Sabalogah cataract while the summer season begins from 15 March to July.
Q: What obstacles do you face?
A: The lack of transportation from the production venues to the consumption markets is the main problem and then comes the taxation problem.
Q: What are the important types of fish?
A: The kass, bayadh, calf (of fish), kawarah, gargour, dabas, benne, Khashm al-Banat (girls’ mouth) which began to extinct, kadan, tamberah, barad, tilapia and catfish (all, except the last two, are Sudanese names).
Q: What are the best kinds?
A:The calf, Bayadh and the tilapia. The latter lays eggs each four months.
Q: For how much do you sell fish?
A: The tilapia now sells for 50 pounds a kilo, up from 15 and 35 pounds. The price depends on the volume of production, that is, the scarcer is the kind the higher is the price.
Q: Have you ever passed through any difficult experience in the River?
A: There were no difficult experiences but I remember that I was fishing during the night when a huge hippopotamus attacked and broke the oar. I was not scared by this and I began to row with the anchor before the worker climbed down and fixed the oar.
Q: How do you view the River?
A: It represents everything for me. It is my life; I got married in the River and I have lived in it until now, although I own houses in Jebel Awlia town. I work in the River till the early morning hours when we load the pick-up trucks with fish.
Q: Are there predatory animals in your area?
A: The hippopotamus has now disappeared but there are the dogfish and some crocodiles, although some of them, like the long white crocodile, have shifted to other places.
Q: Could you name the most famous fishermen?
A :There are Ali Mustafa and Shulkawe who are long-experienced with knowledge of the River secrets.
Q: What scares you in the River?
A: Nothing. Throughout my work of more than 40 years I have not seen any suspicious thing during my travels of fishing up to the borders with South Sudan.
- Many thanks for the chat
- The pleasure is mine.
By Imad Mohamed al-Amin - Sudanow, 28/03/2014
martedì 1 aprile 2014
Smoke the skin to silky perfection.... DOKHAN in Sudanese Traditions.
’Light my fire’ : Sudan’s sex and beauty secret
(KHARTOUM) — When the punishing Sudanese heat cools in late afternoon, Hiba Jiha strips naked, wraps herself in a blanket and sits on top of a burning hole in the ground to smoke her skin to silky perfection.
Aged 26 and getting married, Hiba will straddle the perfumed embers in the courtyard of her house for 15 minutes to an hour, every other day for a month before her wedding night in keeping with age-old Sudanese tradition.
Living in a simple house with her sister’s family in the town of Om Bada, just outside Khartoum, she can ill afford the luxury spa and sauna treatments in the booming Sudanese capital.
Besides, this is her second marriage and she already has two children. Hiba is not a virgin and her new businessman husband will be denied what Sudanese men believe is their right and pleasure in deflowering their wife.
In war-torn, miserably poor and traditional Sudan, men and women whisper that far more than smoothing the skin, the slow burning "dukhan" practice tightens a woman’s vagina, driving her husband wild.
Hamad Mohamed, the manager of an upmarket Khartoum restaurant, raves about the sex appeal of coming home to find his wife of 22 years, mother to his six children, smelling of the special wood called "talih."
"It makes the ladies very relaxed. When she uses the dukhan, I feel she needs me a lot. When I come home and find her smelling like that, it means I’m going to have something special tonight," he grins over a cappuccino.
"It’s like a salad as an appetiser before a meal. Dukhan works exactly like that, to whet your appetite sexually," adds Mohamed, also lauding the burning wood that he says accords medicinal benefits for rheumatism.
In the West, where pampered women splurge thousands of dollars for a surgeon to reattach hymens and tighten vaginas as a "gift" to the men in their lives, the natural remedy is a fraction of the price in Sudan.
Ahmed Zaki Yussef chops and sells wood 12 hours a day, seven days a week, sitting in the shade next to a busy road in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, where women in colourful saris step out of jeeps to haggle over the firewood.
Yussef says women spend between 15 and 50 Sudanese pounds (7.5 dollars and 25 dollars) on a single purchase, carefully examining the wood before handing them to a boy to bag up as their husbands keep watch.
"Sudanese women who live in the villages really depend on it for perfume and lotions. But it’s private. That’s why you do it when you’re married. It’s only for your husband," says 23-year-old university teaching assistant Anwar Hassan.
But she and her mother quash talk of silky skin and special scent, insisting in urgent low undertones that the only reason a woman sits over burning wood for up to two hours at a time is for her husband’s intimate sexual pleasure.
"Forty days after they have a child, a woman waits until everything heals then she does the dukhan. It tightens things up. It’s a very important issue. It’s just like having a bath," says Anwar, her mother nodding in agreement.
Childbirth slackens a vagina, causing old-fashioned "ignorant" Sudanese men to start grumbling that their wife is past her peak and look for the ultimate humiliation — a more nubile younger wife, they say.
Anwar and her mother Zainab say that like leather, the skin tightens when exposed to slow, low-impact heat. "It’s just like cheese with wine," says Anwar, trying to draw a parallel between the dukhan in Sudan and Europe.
But the tradition has begun to divide the wealthy elite of Khartoum, made rich by the profits of oil and a construction boom, and the poor, illiterate masses who populate the rest of the country.
Professional women often avoid dukhan, so closely is the smell associated with intimacy that they say it creates the wrong impression for an educated, respectable female striving for equality in traditional Islamic society.
Zainab, married to a retired ambassador and dressed in traditional Sudanese sari, steers clear of the practice, for example, when she leaves her smart suburban villa for her job in architecture.
Hospital doctor Ammar Abbas goes further, dismissing the dukhan as a superstition with no basis in science that demeans self-respecting women as sex objects for their husband.
"I am Sudanese and I hate this habit. The woman should respect herself in relations between men and women," says Abbas. Prolonged exposure can see women scold or burn themselves, or develop hypersensitivity, he claims.
Most women in Sudan are also circumcised, which in its most severe form, means a young girl has all external genitalia removed and her vaginal opening stitched closed, leaving just a small opening, Abbas said.
Back in the courtyard, its door bolted to keep out prying eyes, Hiba sits on a cushion and plaited straw next to the hole, as smoke billows up through the blanket, and she and her sisters giggle about hair removal and weight loss.
Morto il famoso desegnatore di moda Sudanese.
04-01-2014 01:56 AM
توفي رشاد النميري عارض الأزياء الذي شغل الراي العام بعرض الأزياء الشهير بالنادي العائلي بالخرطوم والذي علي إثره القت شرطة أمن المجتمع القبض عليه وبعض رفاقه ليتم إيداعهم الحراسة وبعد التحري حول البلاغ إلي المحكمة.
بالعودة للوفاة نجد قد توفي عصر الأحد ﺇﺛﺮ ﻋلة ﻟﻢ ﺗﻤﻬﻠﻪ ﻃﻮﻳﻼ.. فيما أشار المقربين له أنه كان في طريقه إلي العاصمة المصرية ( القاهرة ) لتلقي العلاج في اليوم التالي من وفاته.. بينما تم تشييع جثمانه من منزل جده بمدينة ( الرياض) إلي مقابر (ﺍﻟﺮﻣﻴﻠﺔ) ﺑﺎﻟﺨﺮﻃﻮﻡ.
ﻳﺬﻛﺮ ﺃﻥ ﺍﻟﺮﺍﺣﻞ ﺭﺷﺎﺩ ﺃﻗﺎﻡ ﻣﻌﺮﺿﺎ ﻟﻼﺯﻳﺎﺀ ﺑﺎﻟﺨﺮﻃﻮﻡ ﻗﺒﻞ ﻓﺘﺮﺓ ﻭﺗﻌﺮﺽ ﺍﺛﺮ ﺫﻟﻚ إﻟﻰ محاكمة.
lunedì 31 marzo 2014
South Sudan learn from North Sudan one nation and one policy.
March 29, 2014 (JUBA) – Diplomats from different western nations have reiterated their support for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), condemning its government and opposition forces for threatening UN personnel in the country.
“We strongly condemn the continued obstruction of UNMISS operations by Government and opposition forces and any threats to UNMISS personnel", partly reads their 28 March statement.
"We call on all parties to publicly denounce any actions against the mission, SRSG Johnson, and any UNMISS personnel”, the statement by envoys from the US, UK, Norway, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada missions, and European Union delegation in the country added.
Last week, the head of UN peacekeeping department South Sudan government of engaging in "negative campaign" towards the world body and urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to intervene to discipline those responsible in the new nation.
Herve Ladsous, in a briefing to the Security Council in New York on 18 March, said South Sudan government had resorted to harassment against peacekeepers, UN personnel, restriction of activities by the World Food Programme (WFP) as well as organising demonstrations against the leadership of the UN mission in the country.
"There has been a negative campaign against UNIMISS and its leadership in South Sudan which seems systematic and organized," Ladsous told the Security Council.
The envoys also condemned the ongoing violations of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) by the Government of South Sudan, including restriction of movement, harassment, detention of personnel and seizure of UN properties and supplies.
The latest stern warning against the new state indicates how relations between the world body and its new member have turned sour.
The western diplomats described as “unacceptable” all threats and attacks on UN personnel and facilities, saying it may constitute violations of international law.
“We condemn the violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law that have resulted in the loss of lives, and internal displacements as well as refugees along the borders in neighbouring nations”, their statement noted.
“We express concern at the dire humanitarian situation and urge all parties to expedite as a matter of urgency the free, safe and unhindered access of humanitarian organizations for the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance to populations in need", it added.
UNMISS troops are currently operating under a Chapter 7 mandate, which allows the use of force to protect civilians and ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and assets. Over 70,000 displaced people have taken refuge into the UN camps within the world’s newest nation.
The world body estimates that some 3.7 million South Sudanese are now "severely food insecure," while more than a million have been displaced by the violence. Estimates indicate that over 10,000 people have been killed in the country’s violence.
Meanwhile, the various envoys urged all parties in the South Sudanese conflict to engage constructively in the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD)-led negotiations.
“We are deeply concerned by ongoing violations by all parties of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and urge all parties to the conflict to immediately comply with that Agreement, and cooperate with the IGAD monitoring and verification efforts."
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