Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir arrived on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia for talks, the official SPA news agency said. Skip related conten

 .Beshir, who will stay in the kingdom for several days, was met at the airport by King Abdullah and other

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Most support president but non-Arabs say he should be tried by international court.
By Betwa Sharma — Special to GlobalPost
Published: December 29, 2009 07:14 ETKHARTOUM, Sudan — Outwardly, all seems normal at the Khartoum University campus. The sun streams through the hundred-year-old passageways. Noisy students mill around the campus with reckless abandon.

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QATAR (29 Dec.) The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) welcomes yesterday a statement released earlier by the mediation Qatar. The statement appealed to the government of Sudan to do everything possible to create a climate of confidence and the proper environment to reach a lasting solution to the conflict. The

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AL FASHER (29 Dec.) - Chadian opposition forces in the Siah region (North Darfur) raped two days ago a girl aged 11 years old. The incident occurred in Kloko, at a distance of five kilometers of the Siah valley. It is noted the assault came in a series of violations and intimidations which terrified the local population for the last four months.
Continued attacks resulted in a large scale of displacement from the several villages around the Siah valley.

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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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In the name of God the Merciful

Justice and Equality Movement Sudanese

Justice & Equality Movement Sudan (JEM)

Secretariat of the Presidency
www.sudanjem.com

info@sudanjem.com

Congratulations on the occasion of the Christmas peace be upon him

Congratulate Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed, head of the Justice and Equality Movement and the executive

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KHARTOUM, Dec 26, 2009 (AFP) - Amid wrangling in parliament over an independence referendum for south Sudan, southerners in the capital Khartoum look forward with enthusiasm to secession, but the prospect unsettles some.

There are about 520,000 south Sudanese — mostly Christian — living in the Muslim north,

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Countries agree to another meeting in two weeks
KHARTOUM (Agencies)

A visit by a senior Chadian delegation to Sudan ended with a thaw in tense relations between the two countries, Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin said on Friday.

The neighboring countries agreed to another meeting in two weeks to take steps to stop cross-

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Countries agree to another meeting in two weeks
KHARTOUM (Agencies)

A visit by a senior Chadian delegation to Sudan ended with a thaw in tense relations between the two countries, Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin said on Friday.

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Sudan to review law on southern referendum
Posted Thursday, December 24 2009 at 18:34

KHARTOUM, Thursday

Sudan’s two main parties today said parliament will review a disputed law on a referendum on independence for the south, hoping to avert political crisis after harsh criticism from Washington.

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Opposition says heavy-handed government response to demonstrations highlights need for change.

By Tajeldin Abdhalla Adam, Assadig Musa and Katy Glassborow in Hilversum (AR No 239, 15-Dec-09)

Calls for the repeal of a number of repressive laws,

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Reuters/Khartoum
Up to 48 Sudanese opposition supporters will face charges for taking part in a banned rally close to parliament calling for democratic reforms, officials said yesterday.
Riot police fired teargas to break up more than 200 demonstrators in Khartoum on Monday in the second clash with opposition supporters in a week as political tensions mount ahead of April elections.

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December 14, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – Khartoum state minister Mayen Dut who participated in the opposition led demonstration today strongly condemned use of tear gas to disperse peaceful demonstration in the national capital Khartoum today.

The use of tear gas to disperse non violent demonstration is unconstitutional, brutal and indeed an act that

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 (PARIS) – The Egyptian government announced today that it has decided to cancel its hosting of the 25th France-Africa summit after failing to settle the dispute with Paris over the issue of inviting the Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes committed in Darfur.

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(CNN) — Violence in southern Sudan has escalated to its highest levels since a 2005 treaty ended a 21-year-long north-south civil war, a leading aid agency has warned.

In the first 10 months of 2009, Medecins sans Frontieres said, it witnessed a worrying deterioration in the

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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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The Newsweek title is a bit misleading. A better one is,* “if justice is
delayed, it must never be denied” , *quoted from Jolie’s own words …

*Justice Delayed Is Not Justice Denied*
*On Human Rights Day, a renewed argument for action in Darfur. *
By *Angelina Jolie* | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Today we observe Human Rights Day, founded more than half a century ago
when the international community declared that respect for human rights and
dignity “is the foundation of freedom,

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Issue of the Land in Darfur                                                         
   The issue of the land for long has been at the center of politics in Darfur . Land ownership in darfur has been traditionally communal . The traditional division of the land into homelands so-called “Dar” , which are essentially areas to which individual tribes can be said to have a historical claims is crucial

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In the name of God the Merciful
Statement of public opinion and all advocates of social peace and human rights:
What’s going in customers Sheiria, South Darfur?
. Continued to maintain Shearia in South Darfur over the past decades, but Darfur is a small microcosm of Sudan because of its multi-tribal and ethnic and cultural factors, all contributed to the history of the region

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December 7, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — Darfur rebel groups condemned today the ban of peaceful demonstration in favour of democratic reforms and referendum and the arrest of SPLM leaders and opposition members.

Sudan’s dominant party said today the number of arrested politicians and activists has reached 35 people

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December 7, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese ruling National Congress Party (NCP) appeared to be growingly isolated after a day of protests staged by Northern opposition parties and Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) which is a major partner in the government of national unity (GoNU).

The Sudanese authorities, aware of the demonstration plans, took no chances and deployed thousands of

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KHARTOUM (07 Dec.) – The SPLM will continue to organize demonstrations against the ruling National Congress Party of President Omar al Bashir. Secretary General of the SPLM, Pagan Amum said immediately after his release that the SPLM will continue to demonstrate until president Omar al Bashir starts fully to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and the South.

Pagan Amum at first had refused his release, requesting for clarification. After he went out from detention he spoke angrily about the beating of the Northern SPLM leader Yassir Arman who had to be treated in the

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December 5, 2009 (JUBA) – Sudan First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit, said the right to self-determination of the people of Southern Sudan is not something anyone who is concerned about the future of this country should downplay.

The minister made his remarks while addressing symposium “Southern Sudan: Preparing for 2011 and

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Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission said, marking a swift upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.

The attacks on Friday and Saturday targeted peacekeepers from the United Nations-African Union

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December 4, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo expressed confidence today that the indicted Sudanese leader will ultimately stand before court to answer for crimes he allegedly orchestrated.

“Respect for the court decision to issue an arrest warrant against president al-Bashir sends a clear

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London/Washinton, Asharq Al-Awsat - The Secretary General of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement [SPLM], Pagan Amum, sent a message to the people of Sudan, calling for them to assemble in front of the National Council [Sudanese Parliament] next Monday to demand the necessary laws for democratization be ratified. Amum also accused the ruling National Congress party of trying to reproduce the crisis and return [the country] to a state of war by going back on

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

www.sudanjem.com
info@sudanjem.com

Doha Civil Society Declaration on Darfur-November 2009
A Statement from JEM

- JEM welcomes inputs of all Sudanese people and particularly those of Darfur in finding a way out of the current Sudanese problem in Darfur and equally affirms the principle of inclusive participation of Darfur civil societies in the peace process.

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The Synagogue of Khartoum’s Regime

The heralding clouds of peace are fluttering its wings these days. The smooth sail is timed to coincide with the advent of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), a thing that made sweet scent of solidarity and oneness prevail.

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November30, 2009 (PARIS) — The Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur peace process urged today all the parties to the six-year conflict to agree to a cessation of hostilities and to work for the improvement of security on the ground.

Mr Djibrill Bassole, briefed on Monday the United Nation Security Council about the state of

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November 30, 2009 (KHARTOUM) - The Halayeb triangle region on Sudan’s borders with Egypt will be included in the upcoming elections despite its status as a disputed area, the Sudanese electoral commission said.

In October the electoral board took a surprise decision and announced that the residents of the Red

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