KHARTOUM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Health Ministry said five people died of influenza A/H1N1 and 145 cases were confirmed in the country, Khartoum's Al Ahdath daily reported Monday.
The paper quoted Undersecretary of the Sudanese Ministry of Health Kamal Abdul-Ghader as saying that "all cases came from outside Sudan."
He said his ministry has set up 13 centers for the infected people in Khartoum, besides one center in each state of the country, according to the report.
"There are measures to prevent the spread of the disease through surveillance at airports," he was quoted as saying.
He added that the ministry was planning to import vaccines in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Source:news.xinhuanet.com/english/
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Darfur mediation urges Sudan to create conducive environment for peace talks
December 27, 2009 (DOHA) — Darfur peace mediation today has urged the Sudanese government to create a conducive environment before to start peace talks which would take place during the last week of January in Doha.
Sudanese advisor to the president, Ghazi Salah AlDeen Al-Attabani (R), meets with Joint United Nations and African Union mediator for Darfur Djibril Bassole in Khartoum on July 15, 2009. (Getty) The Sudanese Presidential Adviser, Ghazi Salah Al-Deen Attabani who is in charge with Darfur dossier held today a working session with Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud, Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Djibrill Bassolé, the AU/UN Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur.
The meeting tackled the ongoing preparations for the upcoming peace talks between government and rebels delegations scheduled to start on January 24.
"The Mediation strongly recommended that the Government do everything possible to create a climate of trust and a conducive environment for reaching a lasting settlement of the conflict, particularly in the areas of security and freedom of movement, as stipulated in UNSC resolution 1769 and the Goodwill and Confidence Building Agreement signed in Doha on 17 February 2009," said a statement released today by the mediation.
Despite Khartoum statements on readiness to hold talks with the rebel groups, the Sudanese government refused to release some hundred fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in accordance with a confidence building agreement asking them to sign a ceasefire first.
Also, the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement of Abdel Wahid Al-Nur and other rebel groups ask the government to improve the security conditions before talks but the government army and militias attacked several times their position in the troubled region.
The mediation also informed the Sudanese delegation about the resolutions of a conference it had organized in Doha for Darfur civil society and requested "the Government to take into consideration the aspirations expressed by the people of Darfur."
The four day meeting, held by the mediation in order to identify the means for supporting the peace process, called for a ceasefire and urged the stakeholders to work with the mediation to reach a lasting peace agreement.
After discussing the upcoming electoral process with the government delegation, the mediation said hoping that the "ongoing peace negotiations will continue so as to enable all the Darfur population to partake in the April 2010 elections in a free and democratic manner."
Contested in the past by the rebel groups among skepticism from some regional powers, the Doha process is seen now as the most viable approach to end the six year conflict as it conjugates the efforts of the African Union and the Arab League with the support of the international community and adherence of rebel groups.
Last week, the UN Secretary General reiterated the support of the international community to the Doha process and the joint mediator while he hailed the holistic approach of Mbeki for the resolution of Sudanese crisis "By giving Mr. Bassole our unequivocal support, we will send a strong message to all parties that they must engage in the negotiations he is leading" he said.
Source:sudantribune.com/
Police investigates suspicious death of Sudanese man in Calgary
Police units on the scene where body was found in an apartment in the 900 block of 38 Street N.E. in the city's Marlborough neighbourhood (Note: not connected to the killing scene for Saturday's death)
Photograph by: Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
(Calgary AB NSV) - Calgary police are searching for evidence linked to a suspicious death of a Sudanese man on Saturday morning.
Homicide investigators are in the preliminary stages of the investigation and few details can be released at this time. They are waiting for autopsy results.
However, The New Sudan Vision can independently confirm that the victim of Saturday's killing is a Sudanese immigrant, identified as Deng Manyuon (Deng Achol).
NSV understands that Deng left his residence on Friday evening to visit with friends, where they played dominoes.
The last person to see him alive says he and another man drove him off at his residence at around 12 midnight.
The witness said Deng opened his door and told them in Dinka that "You can go now guys. I have arrived."
At approximately 1:25 AM police responded to a domestic complaint, where they found a deceased male lying dead on a roadway near his residence.
Police have not established what transpired in Deng's residence and how the victim's bloody body was found in the snow outside his home.
Deng lived with his wife and his one-year-old son.
Source:newsudanvision.com/
UN: Rebel Group's Attacks in Congo, Sudan May Be Punishable War Crimes
The U.N. Human Rights Office says the attacks and systematic, widespread violations carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.N. agency has just issued two reports on the atrocities committed by the LRA over a 10-month period.
Between September 2008 and June 2009, the U.N. report says the Lord's Resistance Army killed 1,200 people and abducted 1,400 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some 600 children and 400 women were among those kidnapped. These terror tactics are blamed for forcing 230,000 terrified villagers to flee their homes.
Last Christmas, the LRA unleashed its most devastating wave of synchronized attacks. Dozens of locations in and around the towns of Faradje and Doruma were attacked. About 500 civilians were killed and hundreds of others abducted.
Human Rights Spokesman, Rupert Colville, says last year's events haunt everyone in the region. "There is a major fear that they may, in fact, try and repeat, at least partly, what they did last Christmas this Christmas and the U.N. peacekeeping force in DRC, MONUC said last week it had gone on high alert because it had some indications that the LRA could try and do what they did last year, which was particularly savage. They had exploited Christmas, exploited the fact that people were gathering in town centers for the festivities. People were gathering in churches and they used that to maximize their impact," he said.
The LRA waged a civil war in Uganda for more than two decades. During that time, the rebel group abducted more than 10,000 children, using them as child soldiers and sex slaves. About a million people were displaced.
After the LRA was driven out of Uganda in 2002 and out of Southern Sudan in 2005, it took refuge in the Orientale Province, a remote corner in northern DRC.
Last year and early this year, the Congolese army, with support from the U.N. Mission in DRC, launched three separate military operations to try to dislodge the Lord's Resistance Army.
As a consequence, the LRA splintered into several groups and crossed into neighboring Central African Republic and Sudan. Colville says this may have reduced the intensity of their attacks, but it has not stopped them. "And the splinters themselves are causing problems in that they are now in three countries again, not just in one ... It is a very worrying situation because as you say, they have gone on for decades this group. They spent about 20 years largely in Uganda. The same style - killing, mutilating, raping, stealing children, sex slavery ... And, because they keep stealing people, they keep replenishing their forces. So, it is a very efficient form of barbarity in the practice by the LRA. They manage to replicate themselves and keep going," he said.
The report urges the international community to help the DRC improve the quality of its security forces and their ability to protect civilians. It also calls for governments to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in investigating and arresting all LRA leaders accused of international crimes
Souce:voanews.com/
Between September 2008 and June 2009, the U.N. report says the Lord's Resistance Army killed 1,200 people and abducted 1,400 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some 600 children and 400 women were among those kidnapped. These terror tactics are blamed for forcing 230,000 terrified villagers to flee their homes.
Last Christmas, the LRA unleashed its most devastating wave of synchronized attacks. Dozens of locations in and around the towns of Faradje and Doruma were attacked. About 500 civilians were killed and hundreds of others abducted.
Human Rights Spokesman, Rupert Colville, says last year's events haunt everyone in the region. "There is a major fear that they may, in fact, try and repeat, at least partly, what they did last Christmas this Christmas and the U.N. peacekeeping force in DRC, MONUC said last week it had gone on high alert because it had some indications that the LRA could try and do what they did last year, which was particularly savage. They had exploited Christmas, exploited the fact that people were gathering in town centers for the festivities. People were gathering in churches and they used that to maximize their impact," he said.
The LRA waged a civil war in Uganda for more than two decades. During that time, the rebel group abducted more than 10,000 children, using them as child soldiers and sex slaves. About a million people were displaced.
After the LRA was driven out of Uganda in 2002 and out of Southern Sudan in 2005, it took refuge in the Orientale Province, a remote corner in northern DRC.
Last year and early this year, the Congolese army, with support from the U.N. Mission in DRC, launched three separate military operations to try to dislodge the Lord's Resistance Army.
As a consequence, the LRA splintered into several groups and crossed into neighboring Central African Republic and Sudan. Colville says this may have reduced the intensity of their attacks, but it has not stopped them. "And the splinters themselves are causing problems in that they are now in three countries again, not just in one ... It is a very worrying situation because as you say, they have gone on for decades this group. They spent about 20 years largely in Uganda. The same style - killing, mutilating, raping, stealing children, sex slavery ... And, because they keep stealing people, they keep replenishing their forces. So, it is a very efficient form of barbarity in the practice by the LRA. They manage to replicate themselves and keep going," he said.
The report urges the international community to help the DRC improve the quality of its security forces and their ability to protect civilians. It also calls for governments to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in investigating and arresting all LRA leaders accused of international crimes
Souce:voanews.com/
Friday, December 11, 2009
India builds on Sudanese oil interests
India is in talks with Sudan about increasing its energy interests there, the Indian government said on Tuesday, having invested more than $2.5bn in the African state’s oil over the past six years.
The two governments signed a deal in New Delhi on Tuesday to pave the way for increased oil production and exploration and infrastructure development.
Oil investment in Sudan is controversial. China has been attacked for investments seen as helping to prop up an unpopular regime accused of human rights abuses and war crimes. However, participation by energy-hungry India has gone largely unnoticed.
Sudan fought one of Africa’s longest running civil wars, which claimed the lives of millions until 2005, when a peace deal was signed between the Arab-led north and rebels in the Christian and animist south.
More recently, President Omar al-Bashir’s National Congress Party was issued with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for allegedly masterminding a campaign of rape, murder and displacement in Darfur, a western region of Sudan plagued by conflict over the past six years.
The Sudanese leader now ranks alongside Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavian president, and Charles Taylor, the former Liberian leader, the only two other heads of state indicted for war crimes while in office by international tribunals.
“India is your long term partner for energy co–operation . . . We guarantee demand in the buyer-seller equation,” Dr Shashi Tharoor, India’s minister of state for external affairs, said on Tuesday at a conference on Delhi’s pursuit of energy resources in Africa. New commitments to invest in Africa came only days after the World Bank said it was in talks to finance the expansion of Indian Railways to help it improve transport systems in Africa.
ONGC Videsh, the state-owned Indian oil company, is the main Indian investor in Sudan. The company is also eyeing a lucrative joint stake with state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation in Ghana’s Jubilee field, which is owned by Kosmos Energy of the US.
Murli Deora, India’s oil minister, said: “We are particularly keen to participate in upcoming exploration and production opportunities in Angola, Ghana, Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda and Cote d’Ivoire. We offer . . . expertise in several fields.”
Angelina Jang Teny, Sudan’s minister of energy, encouraged Indian companies to “exploit responsibly” the African state’s hydrocarbon wealth and said there was great potential for her country's relationship with Asia's third-biggest economy.
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The two governments signed a deal in New Delhi on Tuesday to pave the way for increased oil production and exploration and infrastructure development.
Oil investment in Sudan is controversial. China has been attacked for investments seen as helping to prop up an unpopular regime accused of human rights abuses and war crimes. However, participation by energy-hungry India has gone largely unnoticed.
Sudan fought one of Africa’s longest running civil wars, which claimed the lives of millions until 2005, when a peace deal was signed between the Arab-led north and rebels in the Christian and animist south.
More recently, President Omar al-Bashir’s National Congress Party was issued with an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for allegedly masterminding a campaign of rape, murder and displacement in Darfur, a western region of Sudan plagued by conflict over the past six years.
The Sudanese leader now ranks alongside Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavian president, and Charles Taylor, the former Liberian leader, the only two other heads of state indicted for war crimes while in office by international tribunals.
“India is your long term partner for energy co–operation . . . We guarantee demand in the buyer-seller equation,” Dr Shashi Tharoor, India’s minister of state for external affairs, said on Tuesday at a conference on Delhi’s pursuit of energy resources in Africa. New commitments to invest in Africa came only days after the World Bank said it was in talks to finance the expansion of Indian Railways to help it improve transport systems in Africa.
ONGC Videsh, the state-owned Indian oil company, is the main Indian investor in Sudan. The company is also eyeing a lucrative joint stake with state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation in Ghana’s Jubilee field, which is owned by Kosmos Energy of the US.
Murli Deora, India’s oil minister, said: “We are particularly keen to participate in upcoming exploration and production opportunities in Angola, Ghana, Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda and Cote d’Ivoire. We offer . . . expertise in several fields.”
Angelina Jang Teny, Sudan’s minister of energy, encouraged Indian companies to “exploit responsibly” the African state’s hydrocarbon wealth and said there was great potential for her country's relationship with Asia's third-biggest economy.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.
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