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 […]

Grateful Sudanese Joins US Army

Now this is a story you just don’t see everyday:
Mahagoub, 41, enlisted in September 2003, shortly after becoming a U.S. citizen and after living for nine years as a political refugee in Japan, where he had fled from his native Sudan.
He said he felt it was time to pay back all that the United States […]

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 […]

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 […]

Taraji Mustafa and Obama

Yes, that Taraji Mustafa. The picture indicates one thing. She’s politically active and is managing to gain the attention of some powerful people. Good for her!

A Real Milestone for the Sudanese Blogosphere

Dear readers,
today is a good and happy day. I believe those of you who have been coming here for a while now already know how excited I get every time a new Sudanese blog pops up. My open letter to the Sudanese blogosphere indicated that evidently.
It looks like the Sudanese blogosphere is starting to build […]

Sexy Videos of Hot, Sexy, Sexed Up, Sudanese Sex

Dear reader,
Let me guess. You found this post after searching “sudanese sex” most probably on either Yahoo or Google right?. It’s okay, don’t be shy. I’ve been getting many hits from people just like you over the past few months. They all arrive here with the same frame of mind expecting to find the same […]

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