News of Sudan.

Deputy to the Blue Nile: the armed forces on the outskirts of the city of Kurmuk


Dr Ismail Adam earliest Deputy to the Blue Nile that the information received indicates that the armed forces on the outskirts of the city of Kurmuk, while the rebel forces fled from the area real estate.
This came in a meeting at his office yesterday a convoy of the joy of Eid functioning of the National Union state of the island.
The Deputy Governor convoy, pointing out that the island had been present since the beginning of the events represented by the Governor Prof. Al-Zubair Bashir Taha in convoys and in the support and backing of all of their localities, and civil society organizations.
For his part, Vice President of the National Youth state of the island that the reasons the island under a fuel, support and sustenance and support of religion and the nation and its armed forces, adding that the convoy aims to contribute to the joy of Eid for the citizens of the Blue Nile

Demonstration in Khartoum to support the "Syrian intifada"


About 350 people demonstrated on Friday in Khartoum to support the "Syrian intifada" against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
A journalist from AFP that about 350 people came out of the largest mosques in the Sudanese capital in the center of the city, carrying banners of cloth reading "Muslim blood is forbidden for a Muslim."
And chanted "No Iran and Alawite Muslims in the field" and "God is greatest".
Demonstration and marched under the protection of police and riot control.
And gave a number of imams in the mosques of Khartoum speeches during the demonstration.
The Association of Sudan's semi-government scientists said in a statement Thursday that the government of Bashar Assad, the face of the demonstrators "against Islamic sharia law."
Sudan is a member of the Arab League committee which visited Damascus on Thursday, represented by the Minister of State Ali Karti.
There was still no official position by the Sudanese government about what is going on in Syria.


Sudan: subsistence farmers in the state of Blue Nile are forced to flee
18 / October / 2011





Villagers to fish in the river near Sally, and their families living in a nearby camp in the jungle after fleeing from their homes by bombing
Eve sits Gondi, aged 21 years on the solvency of outside temporary tents near the village of Sally, where she lives her family of eight members now on the one meal a day. Complained Eve, which is home to her daughter, Fatima, the age of four months, the other three children have died since the start of the conflict in Blue Nile State of Sudan in early September.

And explained the reason of death, saying: "fallen ill and could not give them the medicine they died," noting that Fatima is now infected with diarrhea and a fever at night. She added: "We heard the voice of Antonov [aircraft used by the Sudanese armed forces to drop bombs. We know very well," pointing to her village was bombed and Sally and her family were forced to leave it. "We have nothing to eat. Go to the bush and look at the old plantations on some corn that is still growing, Venktefha and prepare them porridge ... The clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Sudan, Department of the north, too far from here, so I can not I understand that the reason for the flight of Antonov aircraft on our village and dumping bombs. "

The clashes between the two sides continues in Blue Nile state since September 2, when he forced the Sudanese armed forces of political opposition party, which turned into a group of rebels to leave Damazin, the capital of the state.

In the settlement of displaced people gathered near where the others, the inversion of 'Arafah al-Bashir and some of the soup pot made of okra, which will be used in addition to what has been collected from the abandoned farms of high corn to feed 10 people crowded around the tent.

And repeat these scenes of misery all over the area of conflict because of the people fled from their villages for fear of aerial bombardment.

In this context, it was the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to 27 500 people fled the conflict in Blue Nile State to the State of neighboring Ethiopia since early September. The Commission is scheduled to open second camp, 200 kilometers of the border can accommodate up to 3,000 people, while continuing the fighting and aerial bombardments by the Sudanese armed forces.

In spite of that the family of Gondi did not flee away from agricultural areas, but the corn available to them and those with it will be implemented soon, their livelihoods will be affected as well. Eve pointed out that the Antonov plane came a few days ago and bombed the river where you are looking for gold to sell in Kurmuk, a town near the Ethiopian border, an hour's drive away.

Call the FAO


Fighters of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Sudan, Department of the North, standing next to a car coated with mud for the rebels in Blue Nile State
Launched by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last week appealed for $ 3.5 million to assist 235,000 people facing food shortages in both states trouble spots of the war, which are considered also the largest U.S. producer of sorghum (sorghum) in the Sudan, the two states of the Nile Blue and South Kordofan.

The lack of regularity of rainfall and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their farms to double the price of corn bag capacity of 90 kg this year to 140 Sudanese pounds (52 dollars). And expects the Food and Agriculture, said that prices continue to rise due to the worsening shortage of production, but says that access to information about the real situation in Blue Nile State is difficult because of the ban imposed by the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to aid organizations.

For his part, believes Ivan Atar, MD, the only remaining hospital in Kurmuk, the only one in the region that separates the Damazin, under the control of the Sudanese armed forces, the State of Ethiopia, the widespread lack of food has become imminent. Came in saying: "I think that next month will be very difficult, because people will not reap anything. They fled and there is no sponsoring their farms for fear of bombing."

He also warned Uttar from near the end of your inventory movement Sudan People's Liberation, Department of the North, in the town of Kurmuk, which is considered a stronghold for the rebels a 10-minute walk from the Ethiopian border, and within three months.

No longer the town, which had previously been a booming market, contain only a few huts and stalls open selling cigarettes, okra, sorghum and essential household items.

Escape to the forest

Said Siham Colva of temporary shelter in the jungle about two hours drive north of Kurmuk: "We left everything, and we had only cooking utensils," noting that her family left the village two weeks ago and the three children completed the little food that was available during the flight. She added: "There is no food here. We are forced to go to the forest to search for any thing we can eat it with corn and Nkhalth found in the abandoned farms."

In the village of Mayas, where more than 3,500 people, said village chief Khader Abu Sitta, a bomb dropped by an Antonov plane recently caused the deaths of six people, adding: "We do not get to eat only of these small farms and very near our homes, because we have not been able this year to go to our farms in the valley. there are only a few of the food which is limited to corn. " He pointed out that there is no medicine in the village and the market is located in the neighboring village of larger sells only coffee and cigarettes, lentils and flour.

Food Force

Said Malik Agar, governor of Blue Nile State, the former leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Sudan, Department of the North, it may be to hose the upper hand in terms of air power, but the group of his fight with all weapons owned, including land mines, and accused President Bashir of using food as a weapon.

Came in saying: "The strategy] attackers [is to break the will of our fighters, Civilians and their wives are their mothers and loved ones, and the shelling would cause dispersed throughout the region." He noted that the previous season for the harvest "in the origin of the free food" in Blue Nile State, adding: "We ask the United Nations to open up humanitarian corridors" and push for a tripartite agreement to allow access for humanitarian aid.

He also noted that up to half the population of Blue Nile state's 1.2 million people had started to leave. Can not verify these numbers by independent sources.

For its part, said Alexandra Matedej_, coordinator contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross in Khartoum and working in cooperation with the Sudanese Red Crescent in the north of the state, which attracted thousands of displaced people: "We have provided services to nearly 18,000 people in nine different areas of the Blue Nile State Damazin in the vicinity of the city "to provide shelter, water, clothing, food and washing materials.