Republic of the Sudan

Press Statement

On the invitation by the AUHIP Chairperson President Thabo Mbeki, the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan held a meeting in Addis Ababa – Ethiopia from 14-19 January 2013, to discuss the implementation of the Cooperation Agreements of 27 September 2012 and the Outcomes of the Presidential Summit of the two countries which was convened in Addis Ababa during 4-5 January 2013. Continue reading →

EUROPEAN UNION

Brussels, 8 January 2013 A 4/13

Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the recent closure of civil society organizations in Sudan

The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: Continue reading →

A statement by Al Khatim Adlan Center for Enlightenment and Human Development KACE

Sept. 20, 2012–In Sudan Civil society organizations and individuals working for democratization often face a variety of threats as a direct result of their work to denounce human rights violations and hold the government to account. Some civil society organizations face serious challenges in their work such as arbitrary detentions, interrogations, harassment of staff, infiltration by security operatives, and ongoing obstacles to operations such as refusing to grant permits, applications, and so on.

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012, a security agent called KACE Administrative Manager Ms. Arwa Al Rabie’, asking her for information about an upcoming workshop being held at KACE. They asked why she did not inform them of this event, and she explained that there is no direct relation between KACE and the National Intelligence Security Service (NISS). If they need something from KACE, she said, they need to ask through the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), with which KACE is registered. Continue reading →

GIRIFNA

Nonviolent people’s resistance movement to overthrow the National Congress Party

We are all GIRIFNA, we are all Sudan

Press release

The Sudanese government security force has arrested and detained more than fourteen activists and members of Beja congress student Union and other human rights activists this morning 02/02/2012 in Port Sudan city , Eastern Sudan,This happened when a group of youth and families of port Sudan massacre victims and a group of Democratic lawyers had gathered peacefully in the front of the office of General attorney in Port Sudan, demanding the authority to investigate about the massacre of port Sudan 2005 and in support of Girifna Detainees who were abducted on January the 25th by security forces after Girifna had an event in memory of the Portsudan Massacre. Continue reading →

PRESS RELEASE

The SPLMN Representatives to the United States meet with the Office of Baroness Valerie Amos, the United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs

The SPLMN Representative to the United States Anwar Elhaj and the Deputy Representative Philip Tutu and after consultations with the Chairman Malik Agar and Secretary General Yasir Arman met on Wednesday January 18th, 2012 with the Office of Baroness Valerie Amos, the United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs in New York. The meeting discusses the following points. Continue reading →

Sudan people’s Liberation Movement – North

The SPLM-N Calls on the African Union to Take Steps to Ensure and Guarantee Humanitarian Assistance Delivery to South Kordofan/ Nuba Mountain and Calls Upon Valerie Amos to Brief the Security Council on the Humanitarian Tragedy, and on the Refusal of the Khartoum Regime to Allow Access for Humanitarian Assistance and their Continued Non-Cooperation Policy.

Yesterday, Monday 16th January, the First Vice President of the Republic of Sudan, Ali Osman M Taha and his lieutenants convened a meeting for the so-called High-Committee for Humanitarian Assistance. Continue reading →

Reporters Without Borders – Alert

17 January 2012

SUDAN

Two private newspapers closed down since start of the year

The year began in Sudan in the same vein as previous ones, with new censorship moves. Although the country has a diverse media and enjoys some freedom of speech, the Khartoum authorities have stepped up efforts to silence publications that irritate them. Continue reading →

Confiscating “Alwan” newspaper a new episode in Sudan’s repression series

Cairo- 15 January 2012

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information condemned today the Sudanese authority for confiscating next Friday issue of the Sudanese newspaper “Alwan” supposed to be distributed on Friday 13 Jan, as well as shutting down the newspaper indeterminately for its opposition to the government, an episode that became familiar in the series of repressive campaigns launched by the authorities to restrain freedom of expression in Sudan. Continue reading →

From The Ngok Dinka People of Abyei Area

PRESS RELEASE – JANUARY 9, 2012

With great regret we the Ngok Dinka of Abyei Area mark the one-year anniversary of our lost referendum – a referendum guaranteed by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement but never delivered by the Government of Sudan (GoS) because of the obstacles it continuously placed in its way. Instead the Government of Sudan brutally attacked us, killed some of us, injured us, displaced us, occupied our lands, looted our properties and has continued to try to steal our resources and settle others in our homeland. Continue reading →

Press Release

On Tuesday January the 3rd, 2012, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement North (SPLMN) representative to the United States Anwar Elhaj and his deputy Philip Tutu held an important meeting at the United States Department of States with the US special Envoy to Sudan Ambassador Princeton Lyman. The meeting was attended by the special Envoy for Darfur Ambassador Dane Smith as well as five Assistants to the Special Envoys to Sudan and Darfur. The meeting discussed a number of issues related to the current situation in Sudan as follows: Continue reading →

11/11/11 | Enough Project

WASHINGTON — The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has confirmed that the Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, is upgrading air bases recently captured from rebels in Sudan’s Blue Nile border area, which increases Sudan’s capacity to carry out airstrikes along the border and in neighboring South Sudan.

DigitalGlobe satellite imagery, analyzed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative for SSP, also appears to show active enhancement of two airbases seized in Kurmuk on 2 November, including four new helicopter landing pads in the past week. Imagery also shows three helicopter gunships and an Antonov – a plane often used in SAF bombing campaigns – recently present on the newly improved airstrip in Blue Nile state’s capital of ad-Damazin. In addition, SSP spotted a new, 250-meter expansion in progress at the ad-Damazin airstrip. Continue reading →

SOUTH SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIETY FOR ADVOCACY

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2011

JUBA: SSHURSA DEMANDS RELEASE OF EDITOR NGOR & HIS DEPUTY DENGDIT AND URGES SECURITY ORGANS TO RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION:

South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy (SSHURSA) calls upon the South Sudan’s Internal Security Office to immediately release The Destiny Newspaper’s Editor-In-Chief Ngor Garang or else produce him before a Court of Law for any charge or charges against him. Continue reading →