Why Egypt Won’t Press Sudan: the Nile

Egypt is pumping money and aid to South Sudan. Yes that’s right AID, as in free gifts and money to the southern SPLM party. If you’ve been following Sudan’s news well, you’d know that this has been happening for quite a while now.
Egypt is kissing SPLM’s ass so that Southern Sudanese won’t declare independence of […]

Khartoum Calming Down

…For now. I just got off the phone with a well informed friend in Sudan. He says things are calming down now in Khartoum. There were a few isolated killings here and there after Mohamed Taha’s beheading but nothing that major. The so called “investigation” into Mohamed Taha’s murder is still going. The hilarious part […]

Virginity & Honor

“Why did you wait all this time to tell me this?” asked Abbas with tears in his eyes. “I was so scared you would leave me and I was afraid to lose you” replied Fatimah with a trembling voice. “Please! You have to believe me. It was a stupid mistake and I have completely repented. […]

I Ain’t Never Eating McDonald’s Again for a Long Long Time

God what the hell was I thinking? Yesterday was torture. A bunch of friends and I decided to have iftar and break our fast a little differently so we decided to drive off our “in the middle of nowhere” campus and go to the McD buffet in the nearby town. Yes, that’s right McD buffet! […]

Iraqis Uniting Against al-Qaeda?

Maggie at Hyscience has a great post that made my day. It’s 2 days old but who cares. Read it if you haven’t. Iraqi tribes unite to drive out al-Qaeda. Yaaaay! I have a question though. Why the hell isn’t this getting any major coverage in the MSM?

Israel’s Next Top Model

I thought this would be interesting to post. It’s one of those things “on the other side” that rarely get a huge coverage.
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This year marked the second season of the reality tv competition searching for Israel’s Next Top Model (the show is a knock off of Tyra Bank’s program “America’s Next Top Model”). The three […]

The Quran is a Supermarket =(

Ali Eteraz shares with us some news:
Hasan Hanafi, a Philosopher Professor in Cairo, is in trouble for comparing the Quran to a supermarket where you can find whatever you are looking for (i.e. selective reading). He is being labeled and an apostate (and a Marxist, which is interesting because the epithet “Zionist” and “CIA agent” […]

Deported Back to Be Silenced

This is how they get you if they want to
Abulgasem Ahmad Abulgasem, a political opponent of the Sudanese government, prominent figure in Abuja Peace Negotiations and member of a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army, was arrested by the Saudi Arabian security forces on 26 September at his home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he […]

Soldier of Africa

Werner K is a South African soldier stationed with the AU troops in Darfur. He regularly puts up pictures that give you a glimpse of how things look like there on his blog. Check it out. It’s pretty cool.
(A big thank you to Sudan Watch for bringing this blog to my attention)
UPDATE: Sorry about the […]

AU Troops, 3 Months Left: There’s a Lot of Work to Be Done

Jan Pronk is the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Sudan and he leads the UN mission there. Lately I’ve been very impressed by his efforts and the solutions he proposed. I agree with him on many things. I do however personally prefer the AU troops to handle the situation instead of UN troops. If […]

Ex-US Officials Urge Military Action Against Sudan over Darfur

Lovely ey?
Two former senior US officials and a sitting congressman called Monday for the US to lead military strikes against Sudan if Khartoum persists in its refusal to allow UN peacekeepers into its Darfur region.
The United States should push now for a new UN resolution giving Sudan an ultimatum to accept the unconditional deployment of […]

Eastern Rebels Sign Wealth Sharing Deal

This is good. The eastern rebels have reached an agreement with Khartoum. All that remains now is Darfur. Will we become another Iraq or will we save ourselves? Time will tell. Lord have mercy!

What Do Some Sudanese Do When They’re Bored?

They post jokes about Jews in Sudanese discussion forums. I’ve gotta tell you folks. Some of them are pretty damn funny. Here are some:
Why do Jews have big noses? Because air is free
Once, I was about to marry a nice Jewish lady, then I discovered that she was using one tooth brush with her […]

Bob Woodward: State of Denial

Bob Woodward’s book is stirring decent controversy ey? Mike Wallace’s interview with Bob was featured on Yahoo’s front page. Many of the commenters there are not happy. The November elections are on the way and the American blogosphere is pretty heated up. Democrats need to pick up 15 seats to regain control of the House […]

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