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.
Monday 26 December 2011 By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
December 22, 2011 (BENTIU) - Over 170 suspected members of criminal gangs were arrested by police in Bentiu, the capital of Unity State on Wednesday. Government officials said most suspects were between 16 and (...)
Thursday 25 August 2005 Aug 25, 2005 — Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak opened Tuesday Mubarak’s Public Library in Hurghada (Egypt). Mrs. Mubarak had a cordial dialogue with a group of the children who were on hand to welcome her at the Library.
Meanwhile, Sudanese (...)
Thursday 21 March 2013 ‘Remember Sudan’
Art Exhibition
Thursday 11th April at 7pm
Swiss Church, 79 Endell St, London, WC2H 9DY, near Covent Garden
The exhibition features a unique collection of drawings by children living in Sudanese refugee camps, (...)
Sunday 21 December 2008 December 20, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – A French Archaeological mission discovered three ancient ram statues within inscriptions that could help to decipher the oldest script in sub-Saharan Africa.
The statues, representing the god Amun, were (...)
Thursday 1 May 2008 Goethe- Institute in Khartoum
Press Release
Opening of the exhibition
02.05.2008 at 10 A.M. at the Home and Away Business Centre in Juba
A picture is worth a thousand words
Sudanese artists highlight development issues
Goethe- (...)
Tuesday 27 March 2012 By Daniel Abushery Daniel (USA)
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder”. Said by Henry David Thoreau (...)
Saturday 6 March 2010 By Manyang Mayom
March 4, 2010 (RUMBEK) — Three top South Sudanese musicians, Nyankol Mathiang, David Pacong Mading and Marial Awuok Til, were brought to perform in Lakes state for the SPLM campaign. Thousands of natives of Lakes state (...)
Saturday 25 December 2010 By Manyang Mayom
December 21, 2010 (RUMBEK) – Various youth organizations in Lakes state launched a campaign against the state’s law against impregnating girls in Rumbek on Monday.
Youth bodies from Lake’s state eight counties set up a (...)
Friday 16 July 2004 NAIROBI, July 15, 2004 (IRIN) — A UN human development report launched on
Thursday argues that respecting cultural diversity could prevent conflict
and enhance development. It urges states to adopt policies allowing people
to choose (...)
Wednesday 7 July 2004 By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM, July 7 (Reuters) - Singing and dancing to African tribal rhythms, the Balinbo Stars group prides itself on reflecting the diversity of Sudan’s many cultures.
The 11 band members - Christians and Muslims, (...)
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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
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
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