Al Jazeera English | Sudan tribes wrestle in greeting | 26 August 2007
The Baqqara Tribes of central Sudan mark the end of the cattle herding season with celebrations, including wrestling matches. Rawya Rageh reports for Al Jazeera on the tradition.
Al Jazeera English | Heart of Darfur: Arab Nomads | 17 Aug 2007
All this week we’ve been bringing you a series of reports about the Darfur you didn’t know. Now Mohammed Vall follows the trail of the nomadic Arabs of Darfur. They are sometimes wrongfully characterised as Janjaweed, the government backed militia involved in much of the violence of the past 4 years. But as Mohammed discovered, the Rizegat Bedouin are themselves struggling to preserve their way of life in a region torn apart by the conflict.
Wednesday 18 February 2009 February 17, 2009 (LONDON) — Al-Tayib Saleh one of Sudan’s prolific and iconic novelists died today in London from complications related to a kidney condition, one of his close friends told Sudan Tribune. He was 80 years old.
Saleh was (...)
Friday 25 November 2011 November 24, 2011 (LONDON) – The UK’s first ambassador to South Sudan, Alistair McPhail, has called for a focus upon tackling the country’s violence against women ahead of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on (...)
Friday 23 November 2012 November 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - The fourth European Film Festival in Sudan was launched in Khartoum on Tuesday by Sudan’s Minister of Culture and Information, Ahmed Bilal Osman at the offices of the European Union Delegation.
This (...)
Friday 28 September 2012 September 24, 2012 (RUMBEK) - Teresa Nyankol Mathiang, a renowened South Sudanese singer died on Saturday. She was from Abyei and sang songs of liberation during the Sudanese civil war.
The cause of her death remains unclear but (...)
Monday 18 August 2008 Publication of Issue No. 8 of RESPECT, the Sudanese Journal for Human Rights Culture and Issues of Cultural Diversity
http://sudan-forall.org/iht.htm
The Sudanese Society for Research in Arts and Humanities has just published the (...)
Thursday 10 May 2012 By Toby Collins
May 9, 2012 (LONDON) – The South Sudan Theatre Company (SSTC) has received glowing praise for their performances of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline in London’s historic Globe theatre.
As part of the Globe to Globe festival (...)
Wednesday 6 October 2004 By Chris Bishop
KHARTOUM, Oct 5, 2004 (IPS) — Crumbling masonry, peeling paint and dusty patches where once were manicured lawns?The University of Khartoum has worn poorly under the searing Sudanese sun - as much as the language that (...)
Thursday 24 March 2005 KHARTOUM, Mar 23, 2005 (SUNA) — The Federal Ministry of Education has decided to teach the English language as from the first year in the base level instead of the fifth year, starting from July this academic year.
Within this context, (...)
Monday 17 December 2012 By Remember P.D Miamingi
December 17, 2012 (JUBA) - It was Reade who said ‘sow a thought, and you reap an act. Sow an act, and you will reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.’ If (...)
Thursday 9 August 2012 August 6, 2012 (BOR) – Traditional South Sudanese dancers, the Duk Flower Grils of Bor, the Jonglei state capital, have called upon the regional and nation government and chiefs to include traditional cultural awareness in their (...)
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May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai
May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
The misapprehension of peace in the context of conflict resolution2013-05-16 11:40:39 By Ngor Arol Garang
May 16, 2013 - Political leaders and citizens with an interest in politics within the Bahr el Ghazal region will come together for a one week conference on Wednesday, where (...)
Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
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(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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The better approach to reconciliation 2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
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