Khartoum — A parliamentary leader from the troubled South Kordofan slammed the state’s governor and called to declare the state of emergency and to appoint military governor. Afaf Tawer, head of youth and sport committee at the National Assembly and a prominent leader of the National Congress Party(NCP) in South Kordofan told reporters in Khartoum [...]
The president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has been accused of continuing to deny UN organisations access to a quarter of a million increasingly desperate people, despite pledges to allow humanitarian aid into rebel-held areas. In August al-Bashir decreed that, after more than a year of restrictions, aid would be allowed into the battered states of [...]
New York Times East Africa correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman recently published in the New York Review of Books an essay that attempts to give an overview of the crises in the Nuba Mountains (South Kordofan) and elsewhere in Sudan and South Sudan (“War Against the Nuba,” The New York Review of Books, August 16, 2012). Gettleman’s [...]
For twelve months the Nuba Mountain people of Sudan’s South Kordofan State have been under genocidal attack by Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP) government, the Islamist regime of ICC-indicted war criminal, Omar al-Bashir. The year’s toll on the 50+ indigenous African people groups that comprise the Nuba has been just as the regime desired. Over half a [...]
The world cannot afford to ignore ongoing ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. Almost exactly one year ago, the latest bloody chapter in Nuba‘s tragic history was opened by Ahmed Haroun, who was appointed by Sudan‘s President Omar al-Bashir to govern Southern Kordofan after dubious elections there. Both men, along with the defence minister and [...]
YIDA, South Sudan – An unexploded bomb sticks out of the earth. Foxholes have been dug by aid workers fearing more airstrikes from Sudan. Streams of hungry refugees are pouring in. The Yida camp near the militarized Sudan-South Sudan border now holds 31,000 Nuba refugees – almost double the number of less than two months [...]
UN Photo/Stuart Price The tactical calculations in the conflict between North and South Sudan are staggeringly complex but they have one thing in common: neither party has the slightest consideration for the wellbeing of the population. I tend to feel that there is little use for analyses when the men in charge are so determined [...]
Right now, they’re still alive. 400,000 Nuba civilians have been trapped in the mountainous regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan since June 2011, on the brink of a government-orchestrated famine. The Khartoum regime has intentionally cut them off from their fields by persistent and indiscriminant bombing and denied access to any [...]
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We must act now to stop the genocide of Sudan’s Nuba people
In the early 1900s, a young Winston Churchill, then a soldier in north Africa, described how a group of Sudanese troops requiring target practice were sent to attack those living in the Nuba mountains. A century later and history is repeating itself. This time, however, the aim is not target practice – the aim is [...]
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