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محمد آدم الحسن - هولندا

إن معرفة مفاهيم مثل الدبلوماسية الوقائية ودبلوماسية الأزمة ، وصنع السلام ، وفرض السلام ، وحفظ السلام ، وإعادة الأعمار في مرحلة مابعد الصراع ، توحي بنوع التدخل الذي تم استخدامه أو كان من الممكن أن يكون مفيداً في مرحلة معينة من الماضي أو توحي في حالة الصراع المستمر بنوع التدخل الذي قد يكون مفيداً الآن.

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US Envoy Gration and his ‘Cookies and honey’ Strategy for Sudan
By: Abdullahi Osman El-Tom

October 26, 2009: Moments following Obama’s spectacular electoral victory speech, I phoned JEM commanders in Darfur to relay to them fresh news of the US Election results.  A commander at the other end of the phone responded: “We followed the great news as well and our troops are all celebrating at this very

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No legitimacy for Bashir
Dear osman,

The U.S. should not recognize the results of the Sudanese election since the
conditions for truly free and fair elections are not in place.
Tell President Obama: No legitimacy for Bashir.

Imagine an election where the government sends in troops to break up a political
rally, arrest and jail the candidate and supporters who attend,

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Al-Bashir: Persona non grata

Step down, I beg.
You are surrounded by a bunch of deceitful opportunists who hypocritically flood you with fallacious scene of the situation. They (the flatterers) have specialized to shamelessly practice all forms of Art of Persuasion to please you. Much worse, you listen to them and dance with/to them!

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Khartoum Regime Racial Network

No one can deny the fact that this regime is breathing with difficulty its last breath, a thing that made it to tightly clutch at the throne in perpetual fear of being trapped in oppositions’ clutches. Its claws are now gripping firmly on all the state’s private and government sectors

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For How long ?
By
Ali Arshain

The National Congress Party in Sudan has announced, the nomination of President Omar al-Bashir for the country to contest the next election, they have lost their senses and awareness and how the government illegitimate nominate illegal and a criminal is wanted to run for election

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The role of civil society in Darfur

Rural community it is the community that has been targeted by the stockholders around the world aiming to achieve the millennium development that humanitarian and strategies studies said.
Main cause of conflicts in different parts of Africa it is argument over resources and

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A witness of its people

By Ali  Arshain

The Government of National Salvation has always refuted accusations from the international community that has inflamed the screams and ignite war in the Horn and Central Africa. Not content with that and the whole world saw genocide against Darfour and how homeless women and children

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Reagan Aide’s Dealings Raise Questions on Americans’ Involvement With Sudan
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The government of Sudan, eager to curry favor with a U.S. government that accused it of genocide, sought help last fall from an unlikely source: a former Reagan administration official known for his

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dash 8 plane is suited for short runway take
offs as Kisumu airport is undergoing repairs

Coastweek — ALS , a local airlines company has launched direct flights out of Nairobi ’s JKIA (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ) into Juba in Southern Sudan.

The new route follows the recent entry of the airline into the Nairobi-Kisumu route.

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With great power comes great responsibility. This seems to be the motto of Internet giant Google, which has always had a humanitarian side, perhaps greater than any other company its size. From the countless open-source projects to the constant push towards an open Internet and to the more

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NAIROBI, 21 July 2009 (IRIN) - Legal experts in The Hague make a binding decision on 22 July setting the boundaries of Sudan’s oil- and pasture-rich Abyei region – ruling on a dispute that has threatened the country’s fragile peace accord. The following briefing examines the background to the Abyei Arbitral Tribunal’s decision.

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By Wasil Ali*

July 19, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — The African Union (AU) circus that took place in Libya this month is yet another example of why Africa remains the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent with the worst human right records.

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Zechariah Manyok Biar

July 19, 2009 — The Economist published a shocking article about the sale of land in my home land of Jonglei in South Sudan. I also received an e-mail from a concern American citizen about the same deal that does not seem to make sense. So the issue is serious. The question is: who is selling our land?

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Damanga for Freedom and Democracy
Dear Mr. Yahya

On behalf of the DLN executive committee I thank you for your letter dated July 9, 2009

regarding the DLNÕs Philadelphia conference. DLN is so appreciative to your participation in the conference. However the DLNÕs executive committee is deeply regrets and astonished by the way you addressed your concerns

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Op-Ed Contributor

Africa and the International Court

By KOFI ANNAN
Published: June 29, 2009

Eleven years ago when I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and the potential victims of future ones

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Darfur Reconciliation and Development Organization (DRDO):
Struggling for Peace & Justice

The Reality

BY: Adeeb Yousif
Human Rights Defender
New York USA
Cell: 1-973-336-7030
Email: jarayousif@gmail.com

First and foremost I would like to point out that no more important challenge faces us today than how to deal with our differences. The challenge exists on the smallest scale and on the largest. Of all the factors influencing the success of marriage

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UN report on human rights situation in Sudan

Jan 30, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Attached the second periodic report of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights
situation in Sudan.

This report makes five key recommendations, listed below, to assist
Sudan in meeting its international and domestic human rights
obligations. To effectively implement these recommendations it will be
necessary for Sudan to set concrete tasks and timelines for meeting
specified goals. The government should also seek assistance and
expertise from national and international human rights experts.

Ending the culture of impunity throughout Sudan

In areas where peace has taken hold in Sudan, the Government should
focus on implementing a new culture of accountability. The judiciary
must be adequately financed, reformed, and staffed with professionals.
Immunity laws for state agents, regardless of their official status or
function, should be revoked. This is particularly true for personnel
with powers of arrest and detention such as National Security and
police personnel. Law enforcement and military forces in Southern
Sudan and the transitional areas should be held accountable for their
actions. With regard to Darfur, in addition to ending impunity and
reforming the National Security Service, the Government should cease
its attacks on civilians, disarm militias, and install an active,
professional, well-trained law enforcement system in Darfur with
adequate resources.

Those who have not yet been held accountable for the commission of
prior crimes, including those relating to the 21-year civil war,
should be brought to justice. This should be one of the foundational
components of the reconciliation process called for in the CPA. The
National Human Rights Commission envisaged in the Interim National
Constitution could play an important role in mapping out these crimes
and proposing relevant mechanisms for establishing accountability.

The Sudanese Government has made numerous commitments to ending
impunity in Darfur and established a variety of accountability and
investigatory mechanisms. While these are welcome initiatives, the
measures taken to implement them have been highly insufficient and
reflect an inability or unwillingness to prosecute perpetrators of
human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law.
The Government should consider working in cooperation with the
International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring about justice for crimes
related to the conflict that began in 2003. Meanwhile, the Government
should start to use its domestic legal system more effectively.

National Security reform

The Interim National Constitution envisaged reform of the National
Security organs that are critical to improving the situation of human
rights in Sudan. The National Security Service should be stripped of
it abusive and unchecked powers of arrest and detention. This must
include nullifying their immunity protections in domestic law. Similar
reform is needed for the police and armed forces.

Respecting economic, social, and cultural rights

Sudan must start to progressively realize the economic, social, and
cultural rights of its people. Conflict in Sudan was initially sparked
in response to practices of marginalization and discriminatory
resource allocation. The wars that followed resulted in further
devastation to health, education, and living conditions. To remedy
this, resource allocation must be fair, transparent,
non-discriminatory, and involve the effected communities. The
Government should also permit and facilitate the assistance of
humanitarian and development assistance, especially where it is unable
to provide the required services itself.

A free civil society

The Government must allow civil society to function freely.
Restrictions on the creation and activities of media outlets and
associations, including political parties and unions, should be the
exception rather than the rule.

Making effective use of the national law reform committee

In late October 2005, the Ministry of Justice established a committee
for law reform with a mandate to review the compatibility of domestic
legislation adopted from 1901 to 2005 with the Interim National
Constitution. This process should result in the harmonization of
Sudan’s domestic legislation with its obligations under international
human rights law. For the committee to be successful in this respect,
it must rely on the expertise and advice of national and international
human rights experts. In addition to reforming the specific laws
mentioned in this report, the committee should strengthen, inter alia,
non-discrimination laws and those pertaining to the rights of women,
as envisaged under international human rights treaties.

Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon

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Towards Confederation between Independent South and North Sudan
By Abdullahi Osman El-Tom

In line with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed 2005, a referendum on self-determination will take place in the South of the Sudan at the end of the 2011.  Gauging public opinions thus far, coupled by views of political analysts

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Tribute To Pan-Africanist
Deng Ajack

A year after Sudden Departure
The late Deng Ajack-Juba-April 21, 2007

By: Mahmoud E. Yousif

yousif_474@yahoo.com/

On May 2, 2009 Africa lost one of it is greatest Pan Africanist, strategists, and a humanists lost for the world, a talent person who seeks justice beyond personal and tribal

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Omar Al-Bashir lied & Break-down The Peace Agreement

By: Ali Arshain

Wednesday 21/04/2009

Since the  International Criminal Court issued warrant to arrest the Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir it became clear that the Criminal President (Omer Al-Bashir ) decided to continue with his government to  make it worth than before for Darfur. Omer Al-Bashir has appeared after the

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Why Not Re-invoke the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Darfuri IDPs?
Dr. A. Adam
Following great concern at the appalling decision by the National Congress Party (NCP) that led to the expulsion of 13 national and international NGOs and the slowly unfolding humanitarian disaster in the troubled region of Darfur it is high time that UNSC re-invoke the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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New Sudanese Terrorist Alliance Threatens a Repeat of September 11
By Abdullahi Osman El-Tom
It would be a mistake not to take the recent formation of an alliance of a “jihadist” group with due seriousness.  By any measure, this alliance bears the hallmarks of a terrorist organisation with the potential for grave consequences, both nationally

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Half a century of war in Sudan through the eyes of one family

By Koert Lindijer

The international arrest warrant against Sudanese president Bashir threatens to upset the fragile peace process in Sudan once again. NRC Handelblad’s Africa correspondent looks at half a century of violence through the eyes of the family

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Adeeb Yousif
Human Rights Defender Cell: +1-973-336-7030
Service to God is Service to Humanity
To: Every kind and loving heart, to help alleviate the suffering of people through peace and Justice
I am born of Darfur soil. I am Darfurian and I am a Sudanese human rights defender. I am a humanitarian aid worker with 4 years of experience,

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