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 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, (...)
Wednesday 2 June 2004 NAIROBI, June 02, 2004 (Sudan Tribune) - A new station radio has been launched here by the Education Development Centre, an American NGO, to promote peace and development in Sudan.
The radio is called "Sudan Radio Service" will (...)
Tuesday 17 August 2004 KHARTOUM, Sudan, Aug 17, 2004 (PANA) — Speakers at a symposium on Sudan’s oral
history have stressed the need for "an urgent and comprehensive"
documentation for the vast and scattered heritage of the east
African nation.
Addressing (...)
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 26 May 2011 By Manyang Mayom
May 23, 2011 (RUMBEK) – Youth from Lakes state on Monday attended a wedding in large numbers for the first time since January, ending a boycott in protest against the arrest and detention of young men for having sex (...)
Sunday 6 January 2008 January 5, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan launched today a new radio station called Radio Assalam, or Peace Radio aiming to strengthen the national unity in the country and spread the spirit of reconciliation in the country.
First (...)
Tuesday 3 February 2004 By Mahgoub El-Tigani*
Feb 03, 2003 — Amidst prevailing non-Sudanese aspects of life in Bilad al-Gharb [the West], it was an exciting opportunity for many Sudanese nationals abroad to watch the Sudan T.V. programs during the Eid days. (...)
Wednesday 1 June 2011 By Manyang Mayom
May 31, 2011 (RUMBEK) - The body of Samuel Mathiang Keer the former Lakes state secretary of South Sudan’s ruling party – the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) - was laid to rest at his house in Makuric, in (...)
Saturday 5 January 2013 January 4, 2013 (BOR) - South Sudan’s next generation of artists, such as the Pigi United Jazz Band, are trying to build a collective national identity and spread peace in the young nation, through the positive messages in the music. (...)
Wednesday 6 July 2011 July 5, 2011 (JUBA) – The longest serving chief in South Sudan’s Nuer community has died just days before the region will formally declare independence on July 9.
Born in 1913, Paramount Chief Malual Wuon Kuoth died in Ganyliel town of (...)
The better approach to reconciliation2013-05-17 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 (...)
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
MAY 3, 2013
(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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