Today’s Three Linkies

I’m going to be really busy for two or three days and so I leave you with these linkies:

Schism (The Bible version of Fitna)
Israel/Palestine: I’m split
Breakfast in Khartoum

Cheers.

War Looms Over Sudan Again

I haven’t blogged much about the small events that took place in Southern Sudan over the past few months but today, I need to. Things are piling up badly.
Abyei, that oil rich region in the North-South border, is arguably one of the most sticky issues that threatens the CPA and could possibly draw the country […]

Which Is Better For Sudan, a Democrat or Republican President?

Dear Sudanese boys and girls in da house,
dump your thoughts in the comments section. I have my answer and facts but I’d like to hear you out before I publish my choice and concerns in a long upcoming article. I may include some of your comments.
Another way of rephrasing the question could be, which is […]

Sudanese Christians Celebrate Easter

A lot has indeed greatly improved since the signing of the peace agreement but more clearly needs to be done.

Breaking a Taboo: Mr Nur and his SLM Office in Israel

An excellent, insightful piece by a member of the Darfur rebel group, JEM, elaborating their stance on the whole issue. On a related note, let’s see what a Western aid worker in Darfur wrote about a week ago:
A few days ago a prominent rebel leader in Darfur, Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, the head of the Sudanese […]

Sudanese Identity: Wisdom on a Post-Racial World

Check out this piece by the Sudanese Mohammad Ali Salih and the great responses to it at Sudanese Online.
I too, found it troublesome that Muhammad Ali arranges the way he sees himself as follows:
When I came to Washington , D.C. , in 1980, I was ambivalent about the racial divisions in […]

Darfur Rebel Says Sudanese Army Painting Tanks With UN Colour

Here we go again:
March 3, 2008 (LONDON) – Darfur rebel movement has accused the Sudanese army of painting tanks of UN Hybrid force saying it plans to attack its position in West Darfur.
Hehehe, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true. Yaay to the Sudanese army!

Anti-Black Arab Racism

I found this great article by Nesrine Malik, a fellow Sudanese, via a link at Ali’s blog. I can strongly relate to her story.
As a Northern Sudanese, I’ve always found it funny how we have no problem whatsoever being racist towards our fellow countrymen with darker skin from Darfur and the South but then start […]

Palestinian Refugees Arrive In Sudan

Like I said before, I welcome them heartily with wide open arms and I have no problem their arrival. If only we gave our own refugees and people the same damn treatment.
Once again, the plight of the Palestinian is being used by our regimes for nothing else but self-beneficial propaganda.
AK has the news and I […]

Pro Al-Qaeda Graffiti Appears In Large Parts of Khartoum

How comforting:
February 25, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The walls in the Sudanese capital as well as another major city have been smothered with Graffiti supporting the Al-Qaeda terrorist Islamic militant group, multiple sources told Sudan Tribune.
Residents of Khartoum and Omdurman woke up to paintings showing Islamic symbols such as the crescent with the words “Al-Qaeda Organization […]

Sudan’s Religious Leaders Campaign In Favour of People Living With HIV/AIDS

This is great news!
February 25, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Religious leaders and specialists gathered in a two day workshop last week to finalize a training curriculum to build the capacity of religious leaders in responding to HIV/AIDS in Sudan.
Over 50 key religious leaders from both the Christian and Muslim faiths joined together to fully endorse the […]

Bashir Orders Boycott of Anything Danish

Oh dear!
February 24, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered today that no Danish diplomat be received in the country as well as expelling Danish humanitarian organizations and boycotting Danish goods.
This is so utterly silly.
Okay so let’s see. First, a Danish newspaper prints a bunch of cartoons depicting the Prophet (which is […]

Mutasim Hamid: Tortured to Death

He was just a student:

Students Mutawakil Mohamed Osman (engineering), Ali Mohamed Ali (education), Omer Osman (economics) were brutalized. The Medani security officers tortured, in particular, student Ali Mohamed Ali who witnessed the tortures of several colleagues, including the immediate death of student Mutasim Hamid AbulGasim (computer science) as a result of brutal tortures by police […]

More than Just “Genocide”

Thanks to the sensationalism of the mainstream media, Sudan has become synonymous with genocide. Oh and not to forget, evil teddy bears. But there’s more to us than just that - a lot more.
In fact, Andrew Heavens knows what I’m talking about.
Here’s the first. Meroe pyramids, about three hours drive out of Khartoum. You can […]

Gay Africans and Arabs Come Out Online

Andrew Heavens has written a superb piece on Arab and African gay bloggers. It mentions fellow Sudanese blogger Ali who is gay and tells the story of my post’s aftermath.
I believe that the coming out of Arab and African gays online is a good thing. It’s a wake up call to all the naive ones […]

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