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Mercy Corps continues support to Kingdom’s health system amid pandemic By Maria Weldali - Jan 19,2021 - Last updated at Jan 19,2021 AMMAN — Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Mercy Corps, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, added deeper layers of support through improving the capacity of the ministry to mount an effective response to the outbreak. The Mercy Corps’ Leadership and Community Development programme, which was launched in 2013 with the aim of improving infr...

"The U.S. decision [to recognize Moroccos sovereignty over the Western] Sahara, and Moroccos decision to renew the open relations with Israel, triggered a flood of negative reactions, all of which [claimed] that this move harms the stability of the region and may plunge it into a vortex of violence, social unrest, etc. The first to issue this prophecy was Palestinian journalist Abd Al-Bari Atwan, who wrote in an article in [the online daily] Rai Al-Yawm… that the Morocco-Israel agreement may ...

Daily Monitor Thursday January 07 2021 A man casts his vote during the 2016 General Election at Kisota Polling Station in Kisaasi, Kampala, in 2016. PHOTO | FILE Summary While Mr Kazibwe agrees that civic duty ignorance has a decisive influence it exerts on electoral choices, Mr Amanya says the influence has in the past been nominal but things could change in the forthcoming election. Advertisement “I get confused each time I walk the streets, seeing a multiplicity of posters with positions q...

Views: Visits 6 Khartoum / Kadugli — The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) has launched the campaign Know Your Right, to protest the violence of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against “ordinary citizens”. The association further demands the dissolution of the militia. The SPA, the driving force behind the 2018 December Revolution that led to the ousting of Omar Al Bashir in April the following year, has given the authorities a week to close the RSF detention centr...

January 6 - 2021 KHARTOUM Minister of Religious Affairs Nasreldin Mofreh at his press conference yesterday (Social media) The Sudanese Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments has been involved in ‘huge corruption’ during the Al Bashir era (1989-2019). Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments Nasreldin Mofareh told a press conference at the office of the High Council for the Haj and Omra (pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia) in Khartoum yesterday...

January 3 - 2021 KHARTOUM / KRAKOW / DOHA Graphic by Sudanese queer activist and visual artist Malab Alneel (Social media) At least three LGBTQ+ organisations in Sudan are forced to operate underground, forcing artists to work with virtually no financial support, according to a report published on December 10 by Freemuse. In an interview with Radio Dabanga, Ola Diab, a Sudanese journalist based in Qatar, said that there is “still significant resistance in Sudan – ...

December 24 - 2020 NEW YORK Joint Special Respresentative and Head of UNAMID Jeremiah Mamabolo (UN) The United Nations Security Council formally decided on Tuesday to end the joint UN-AU Mission in Darfur (Unamid) on December 31. UNAMID Joint Special Representative Jeremiah Mamabolo gave an interview to the UN press department. Some quotes. The major challenge UNAMID had to deal with, was the former Al Bashir regime, UNAMID head Mamabolo reckons. “We had to deal wit...

December 23 - 2020 WASHINGTON / KHARTOUM US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Sudanese PM Abdallah Hamdok during his visit to Sudan in August (SUNA) US Congress passed a bill on Monday reinstating Sudan’s sovereign immunity and preventing future legal procedures against the country for attacks on Americans that the ousted Al Bashir regime supported. Pending court cases filed by victims of the September 11 attacks are excluded from the bill. As part of the ‘Sudan C...

December 22 - 2020 EL FASHER / EL GEZIRA / DELLING Darfuri camel herders (sudanreeves.org) Yesterday, angry farmers in the area of Tabit, North Darfur, closed the El Fasher-Nyala road, to protest against the destruction of agricultural land and crops by herders’ camels and livestock grazing. Farmer activists told Radio Dabanga that farmers from 150 villages had set up their tents in the area of Kedarik, near Tabit, to demand protection during the harvest season as well...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 22nd, 2020 Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) announced last month that the Moroccan authorities have dismantled 207 terrorist cells since 2002. As for Morocco… it is the Islamists, and not Israel, who have “corrupted the minds of Moroccans, sowed the seeds of discord among them, brought Moroccan education to the brink of bankruptcy and legitimized ignorance.” — Ahmed Assid, pr...