Sudan Conference

June 25-27 2010 in Hermannsburg, Germany

Transformation Processes: for the better or the worse?

After the Elections, on the way to Referenda and Popular Consultations – People’s Fears and Hopes

organised by Sudan Forum e.V, and Sudan Ecumenical Forum/ Sudan Focal Point-Europe

Communique

No time to waste - Sudan at the crossroads

We, 150 participants of the Sudan Conference from 16 countries, representing Sudanese civil society and political parties, faith based organisations from inside the Sudan and outside, International Non Governmental Organisations and Institutes, Governments and Government agencies, after lengthy and frank discussions of the current and possible future socio-political situation in the country, and particularly preparations for the forthcoming Referenda and Popular Consultations as well as the situation in Darfur, state a “Kairos” moment for Sudan.

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South Self Determination referendum
A Statement from JEM

JEM reaffirms - through its legislative, executive institutions, and its popular and military grounds - its full and absolute support to the right of self-determination as provided in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and strongly calls for the Referendum to be held in a timely manner without delay.

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The Black Book Haunts Al Bashir’s New Cabinet

Abdullahi Osman El-Tom

Following his kangaroo elections last month, May 20, 2010, Al-Bashir appointed his Ministers and State Ministers.  He is yet to work out his suite of advisors.  Given the turbulent years that Sudan has gone through in its recent past, it may be worthwhile to see if Al-Bashir’s post-election cabinet reflects these challenges.  The years 2001 and 2002 witnessed the publication of the seminal work, ‘The Black Book:

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WASHINGTON — The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents.

The effort to drum up new business in East Africa by Blackwater owner Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL who

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June 24, 2010 (PARIS) — Any peace agreement should bring positive and tangible changes in favor of Darfur civilians irrespective of the group that signs a peace agreement with the government, said the joint chief mediator in Paris today.

Dijibril Bassole who was speaking at a press conference held in the French capital, said that the Sudanese government has to make the necessary concessions for the Darfuri people to create the needed dynamics

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June 24, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir on Thursday phoned the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to protest “hostile moves” by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group fighting in Darfur.

Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi (Reuters) JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim has been stuck in Libya since May after

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“African nations led by Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan have the most precarious water supplies in the world while Iceland has the best,” according to a report released Thursday, Reuters reports.

“The ranking, compiled by British-based risk consultancy Maplecroft, said climate change and a rising world population meant that stresses on supplies would be of increasing concern in coming decades for uses from

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June 24, 2010 (PARIS) — The spokesperson for the Justice and Equality movement (JEM) criticized the joint chief mediator Dijibril Bassole saying that he has lost control over the negotiation in favor of the Qataris who are hosting the talks.

“Bassole failed to act like an impartial mediator and instead of pressing the Sudanese government to honor

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

 
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New GoS Soldiers Captured by JEM
A Military Statement

The following is list of names of new POWs captured by JEM in the last
battle of Umkatkout, yesterday Tuesday 22nd of June 2010:
No    Name    Military Division (MD)
1    Lieut. Nuraldin Anderson    MD No 12, Card No 18772
2    Lieut. Ashraf Osman A/Alla    MD 61, Central Reserve
3    Soldier Ahmed Mhd Elsuni    Central Reserve

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A top official with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in Sudan has dismissed as a mere “publicity stunt” ongoing peace talks between the government and the Liberty and Justice Movement (LJM), another Darfur-based rebel group.

JEM spokesman Ahmed Aden said President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and his dominant National Congress Party (NCP) are not interested in resolving the Darfur crisis.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 23 (UPI) — A Swedish investigation has been started into Lundin Petroleum’s activities in the Sudan and whether it was a party to war crimes between 1997 and 2003.

Magnus Elving, the public prosecutor, announced the investigation Monday, The Christian Science Monitor reports. It was sparked by a report by the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan that a consortium led by Lundin and including Petronas of Malaysia and OMV of Austria “may have been complicit in war crimes and

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The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) said that the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) had recently entered Ozban area, South Darfur, causing a lot of havoc and instability to citizens, and prompting SAF to fight back JEM in the area.

The Spokesperson of SAF, Lieutenant Colonel, Al Suwarmi Khalid Saad, said that SAF inflicted heavy losses on JEM, killing 43 soldiers and wounding 90, and some of JEM’s soldiers were unaccounted for.

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DOHA (22 Jun.) - The Qatar Charity on Monday announced a project to improve the livelihoods of people affected by the Darfur crisis. The project, funded with 4 million riyals (more than US$1 million), aims to improve the lives of 65,000 people in Darfur. Nasser Al Kaabi, member of the Board of Directors of the Qatari foundation, said the project aims to develop rural areas in Darfur and to decrease the level of poverty,

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By   Abdel-Rahman Hussein /Daily News Egypt June 22, 2010, 4:35 pm

CAIRO: Sudan and Egypt are attempting to avert a diplomatic tiff after Sudan’s new foreign minister criticized Egypt’s lack of involvement in Sudan and the paucity of its knowledge about Sudanese affairs.

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By Andrew Heavens

Khartoum - Darfur’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels said they clashed with Sudan’s army on Monday and Tuesday, in the latest sign of a surge of violence that has cast a shadow over floundering peace talks.

JEM said it defeated large government attacks in Uzban, 120km south-east of the capital of North Darfur

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* Cyprus intercepts Sudan bound ship

* Carries “explosives or military material”-minister

* Sudan foreign ministry says has no information

(Adds Sudan official, paragraph 6, background)

NICOSIA, June 22 (Reuters) - Cyprus has intercepted a vessel carrying military equipment thought to be bound for Sudan, under an arms embargo by the United Nations and the European Union.

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

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JEM Scores a Second Victory in 24 hours
A Military Statement

The evening of Monday, June 22nd, GoS Sustained another defeat at the hands of JEM at Umkatkout, 110k south-east of El Fashir and 90K from Nyala. This defeat of SAF is second in 24 hours and ninth in six weeks.
The army fled the battlefield after what could hardly be called a battle and left behind large amount of

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VERY URGENT APPEAL TO RELEASE SUDANESE NATIONALS FROM LEBANON PRISONS

Reports from Lebanon indicate that many Sudanese in Lebanon are facing a difficult situation that needs the immediate attention of Sudanese as well as non-Sudanese organizations together with the government of Lebanon, theArab and African human rights groups, and the international community as a whole.

There is a critical need to inform the whole world on the situation of these Sudanese citizens and the abuses

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President Kiir announced the new government in southern Sudan
GoSS Cabinet, June 2010

1. Mr. Kosti Manibe Ngai - Minister of Cabinet Affairs

2. Mr. Pagan Amum - Minister of Peace and CPA Implementation

3. Nhial Deng Nhial- Minister of SPLA and Veteran Affairs

4. Deng Alor Kuol- Minister of Regional Cooperation

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

 
www.sudanjem.com
info@sudanjem.com

JEM Scores a Decisive Victory in North Darfur
A Military Statement

Today, Monday June 21, 2010, SAF suffered yet another defeat within less than a month.   Two government battalions left Shearia and Um Saouna and attacked our gallant forces at Uzban Dooma, 120k South East of El Fashir.  The government army was summarily defeated and fled the battle

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By Associated Press  |  June 22, 2010

CAIRO — More than two dozen gunmen attacked Rwandan peacekeepers yesterday in the ravaged Darfur region of Sudan, killing three of them in an hourlong firefight, a spokesman for the international mission said.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security officers have recaptured one of four men who escaped from prison after being sentenced to death for the murder of a U.S. aid official and his driver, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

There was no immediate official comment on the story, published in the Khartoum daily Akhbar al-Yawm.

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TOKYO, June 22 (KUNA) — The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to extend the deployment of two Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to Sudan to take part in UN peacekeeping operations there for another year to the end of June, 2011, the Foreign Ministry said. The extension was approved at a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day.

“In response to the UN Security Council’s decision in April to extend the mandate of the UN Mission in Sudan

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Eric Reeves - June 21, 2010

It is no overstatement to declare that the fate of the nation-state of Sudan hangs precariously in the balance. If the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum refuses to allow free, fair, and timely conduct of a self-determination referendum for the people of southern Sudan—scheduled for January 9, 2011—then war will follow. And it will not be confined to the south of the country, as previous civil wars have largely been. Peoples of the peripheral regions of Sudan have endured decades of marginalization and

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* Cyprus intercepts Sudan bound ship

* Carries “explosives or military material”-minister

* Sudan foreign ministry says has no information

(Adds Sudan official, paragraph 6, background)

NICOSIA, June 22 (Reuters) - Cyprus has intercepted a vessel carrying military equipment thought to be bound for Sudan, under an arms embargo by the United Nations and the European Union.

Authorities said on Tuesday the Antigua and Barbuda flagged cargo vessel had been prevented from leaving

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Khartoum - A rebel militia leader said on Sunday his forces had fought six battles with south Sudan’s army in the past week, killing scores of people in the region’s Jonglei oil state.

South Sudan’s army (SPLA) dismissed the comments from militia leader George Athor, saying it had not fought his forces since a previously-reported clash on Tuesday.

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THE HAGUE: Two Sudan rebel leaders who surrendered to a world court over a deadly attack on Darfur peacekeepers yesterday urged other war crimes suspects to come forward and face justice.

Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus came volontarily to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Wednesday over the 2007 attack in war-torn Darfur which killed 12

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Source: Radio Dabanga

Date: 18 Jun 2010

GOZ AMIR (18 Jun.) - A group of Sudanese refugees that arrived in Chad after recent clashes in West Darfur complain that the humanitarian situation is very bad. The 2500 Sudanese refugees have settled in Goz Amir camp. One of the new Sudanese refugees in the camp told Radio Dabanga that since their arrival at the camp

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TRIPOLI (

Jun .) -

The leader of the Sudanese rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) declared that his movement will never participate in the Doha peace process. In an interview with Radio Dabanga today, Khalil Ibrahim also expressed indifference at the possibility of a rival rebel coalition signing a peace treaty with the Sudanese government.

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By   AFP June

KHARTOUM: The defense team of four Sudanese journalists on trial for alleged terrorism and false reports on arms production for Iran quit on Wednesday over “impossible” court conditions.

“The judicial authorities are making it impossible for us to defend our clients, so we are pulling out of the case,” the head of the defense team, Kamal Al-Juzuli, told AFP.

Abu Zar Ali Al-Amin, Ashraf Abdelaziz, Ramadan Mahjub and Tahir Abu Jawhara of Rai Al-Shaab newspaper have been on trial at the North Khartoum criminal court since June 9 on charges of spying and terrorism.

They are specifically accused of having published “false” reports on an alleged factory in Sudan that makes weapons for Iran. They also wrote articles suggesting that President Omar Al-Beshir, who was re-elected in April polls, did not enjoy widespread support in Sudan.

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