A message to All Sudanese Bloggers

hello there, it is nice to get to meet many Sudanese bloggers from the net and through my blog here and it is even nicer to read there blog and hear about there opinion I am for sure grateful for that, I hope all of you are enjoy the enormous flow of information that we are getting on the net about the election of our home country the Sudan, with this overflow of information and articles comes a great responsibility that lies heavily our shoulders (Sudanese bloggers), we as Sudanese have our voice to explain to the world what we think about this upcoming election, if we keep silent and only blog about our personal experience and our thought of the world around us and ignore an event so important for the future of the sudan such as the election in the Sudan we are miss out on the action a lot. I would like to invite all Sudanese blogger to blog about the election and about their opinion or even about their dislike in how this election is going or the direction in which it is leading the Sudan to, please shear your thought and opinion with the world because I am sure the world want to hear you. i know i do :)

I hope that we could set a date that we all could blog about the election on so if you think this idea is a good one please post a comment and tell me what you think and when do you think the day should be in.

Wishing you all the best on your blogging and May you have wonderful and a good blog post soon. Hopefully about election in sudan.

Why would you threaten to expel international poll monitors in the sudan?!!!

The translation to English in the poster is ( lets go and register our names for election, where and when)

Now Mr. Pres. why would you want to expel international poll monitors they are one of the main factors that will make this election legitimate for the CPA agreement. It is so interesting to see how this goes, if I'm not mistaken the Carter Institute is not meant there to help only the NEC is also there to give advice as to how the election is to be done. It is also there for other political party to communicate and discuss with the Carter Institute for election affair and the process of legitimate election. I don't think that they are wrong in telling you that the environment that the Sudan is having right now is not the time to have the election in. that if it is delayed that would help.

I don't know what's the big deal in delaying the election for several months. It has already been delayed before, all international factors plus internal factors such as political parties other than the NCP and the SPLM have agreed that this election should be delayed. Now this is itself is a democratized process. No I do not know other reason that would affect the election if it was postponed for several months. Also I would like to restate the final sentence in more detail, now we know that many of the main internal political party of sudan have issued a statement demanding the postponed the election

March 21, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The leaders of the major opposition parties in Sudan has pushed a memo to the presidency requesting that April elections be postponed until next November in order to allow for major reforms in a number of laws primarily relating national security and media.

also, the Carter Institute which is one of the main Institute that monitors this election has also stated that the election process is at risk

March 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Carter Center issued a preliminary statement on the final stages of Sudan’s electoral process saying the process "remains at risk on multiple fronts including the ability of candidates to campaign freely" and the potentially negative impact from delayed logistical preparations.

"Logistical preparations are straining the limited capacity of the NEC," the US-based observer mission said in a public statement. "With a series of delays and changes in polling procedures, a minor delay in polling for operational purposes may be required."

In a dramatic statement, the Carter Center said "it is increasingly unclear if the NEC can deliver a successful election on time," citing limited NEC and UN transportation capacity, the massive volume of materials to be deployed, the re-packaging of materials necessitated by changes in the planned number of polling stations, voters per polling station, and delays in ballots production.

even Eritrea felt the need to say that this election should be postponed, and many different Institute have stated that this election is either not ready, could not be legitimate, or even the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo had a say on this upcoming election stating that it is a 'Hitler election'.

The EU's observers on the ground are facing "a big challenge," Moreno-Ocampo told a press conference in Brussels.

"It's like monitoring a Hitler election," he added.

all of that aside and i Also do not know if there is another definition for the following statement stated by the Sudanese president:

"We wanted them to see the free and fair elections, but if they interfere in our affairs, we will cut their fingers off, put them under our shoes, and throw them out," he said.

The only thing that I could say about this statement is no comment, it is funny and sad to see such statements broadcast it throughout the world as if we are threatening the world and we ourselves have more problems in our country then we could solve. And now we are threatening to cut their finger off that's just ridiculous. o well i will stop here for now, feel free to comment

France:We Invite Sudan but not the president of Sudan.

 

France just started sending out letter of invitation for it Franco-African summit  which is expected to be held may. France has also invited sudan for the summit but it clearly stated that it expects somebody other than Pres. Omar Hassan AlBashir to come to the summit. The interesting thing is that the summit has originally been stated to be held in Egypt but due to the fact that Egypt might allow the president of Sudan to visit the summit, news article say that the summit has been moved to Nice,France. I guess the French do make it clear to everyone their opinion on the situation that the Sudan is facing today. I guess many European Union  states will follow the same action that Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy made to tighten the grip on the Sudanese president.

 

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Sudan to take part in a Franco-African summit in May, but has made clear that Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir should not attend, the Elysee said on Monday.

Sarkozy's office said Bashir would not be welcome.

"The president has indeed sent a letter to Omar Hassan al-Bashir to ask him to nominate the person who will represent Sudan at the Franco-African summit," said an official, making clear that the Sudanese leader himself could not come.

The summit had originally been set to take place in Egypt but France was concerned that Cairo would invite Bashir in person so reached a deal to switch the meeting to the French Riviera city of Nice, leaving Paris in charge of invitations.

Sudan's state news agency SUNA said that in his letter to Bashir, Sarkozy had also expressed France's gratitude for the recent release of French hostages in the region.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62L2B720100322

Invictus: truly an inspirational movie, With a message to Africa

I don't know about you guys

but if you haven't watched the movie I highly recommend you to do so, I just watched the movie invictus and while watching it for a while I thought if only we had more of him, if only we had more of him in Africa. Once a while ago I was talking to a friend of mine and he was pointing out that Africa as a whole doesn't have great leaders, he was insisting that we need an inspirational leader in Africa for the youth of Africa to following in his path. I always thought that he was wrong,that Africa does have great leaders. Nelson mandela, is truly an inspirational leader that has moved his country from being divided due to apartheids to being united under one rugby Stadium.

I do not know if I'm right or wrong but I definitely believe that I'm closer to being right then being wrong, what happened in South Africa is similar to what Sudan is witnessing today. The difference between South Africa's case and Sudan case is that Sudan and the Sudanese people have to decide on independence in 2011. In South Africa's case they didn't even get to the point of deciding to have a two state solution. I am pro-unionist who believe that Sudan should be one state where freedom of religion is respected and honored and opportunities are giving equally to everyone no matter their race, sex or color. So to all the Sudanese people out there that’s the remember how we would all use to study at the same school and we all used to play in the same play ground and eat from the same restaurant and go out partying together, tell me what happened. today Sudan is not the Sudan that we grow up in. It's not about South or North it's about us.

Let's not let what happened in the past 20 years and affect that some ignorant leaders of our country have made in the society and the fabric of the society itself erase the memory of us of we of a one sudan, let's not forget who we are, a society that does not judge a person by its color or race or religion.

let's try to understand and respect the gift that God has given us in having us to be from a country which has a different diverse group. Remember, remember we are all one.

Famous quotes

Nelson Mandela: Brothers and sisters, this is the time to build our nation!

Francois Pienaar: I was thinking how a man could spend thirty years in prison, and come out and forgive the men who did it to him...

Jason Tshabalala: According to the experts, we'll reach the quarter-finals, and no further.
Nelson Mandela: According to the experts, you and I should still be dead.

Brenda Mazibuko: This rugby, as a political calculation...
Nelson Mandela: It is a HUMAN calculation!

Nelson Mandela: I thank whatever gods may be /

For my unconquerable soul. /

I am the master of my fate /

I am the captain of my soul.

Happy Mothers day to Supermoms everywhere!!

happy mothers day mom, by the way everyone in the middle east mother day in on the 21 of march :).

M - O - T - H - E - R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell
"MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

here is  an interesting story, i read it and now it is made in to a clip check it out please

 

again happy mothers day to all the moms out there. :)

In Memory of Endurance Idahor

in march 8 and in a shocking scene Almarekh player endurance idahor just fell down in the middle of the game and pass away several minutes after, he was born in 1984 and one of Almarekh best player. He is survived by his wife and two children. i just found this clip in his memory while surfing on youtube.

 

Sudan opposition seek poll delay.

delaying the election is still a debatable issue, it is going to be an interesting year.

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Carter Center says Sudan elections process at risk

hello everyone, here we go

March 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Carter Center issued a preliminary statement on the final stages of Sudan’s electoral process saying the process "remains at risk on multiple fronts including the ability of candidates to campaign freely" and the potentially negative impact from delayed logistical preparations.

i kind of sense that this election would be postponed, now that all of these news article are showing up, like the one above i think that might be an inevitable choice for the Sudanese people.

also

In a dramatic statement, the Carter Center said "it is increasingly unclear if the NEC can deliver a successful election on time," citing limited NEC and UN transportation capacity, the massive volume of materials to be deployed, the re-packaging of materials necessitated by changes in the planned number of polling stations, voters per polling station, and delays in ballots production.

now this tells me that thing are not going well and postponing the election is going to be for a big change in the NEC commission.

also don't forget this article Sudan opposition want elections moved to November, slams UNMIS official

which state

March 13, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — A number of presidential candidates in Sudan has jointly called on the April elections to be postponed by seven months till next November and submitted a proposed formation for the National elections committee (NEC).

The Umma Party runner for president Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi hosted a meeting at his residence in Omdurman agreed on steps that need to be taken for achieving democratic transformation and establishing an "impartial" board to monitor the work of the NEC in terms of administration and finances, creating a body consisting of presidential nominees with rotating head, rescheduling elections to resolve a number outstanding issues.

just when i thought thing are getting on track it seems it is not, after talking to some Sudanese friend of mine i also got the same impression that this election is not going to be in april, but i guess that just people opinion that fact has not been yet state clearly.

but as always there are others who think differently

 

lets wait and see.

Salam :)