January 22, 2011

East Sudan promo video




This video was shown to all the participants at the Donor and Investment Conference in Kuwait. It offers a general tour of East Sudan.

January 21, 2011

Libyians express support for the east


Sudanese Minister of the Environment met recently with Libyan officials who announced pleasure with the Kuwait Conference in December, and then stated their own support for efforts at developing the east.

Additionally, the Libyans said they would help with development in the north of Sudan.

Sudan spokeman mention that half of the $600 million to be given for development in the east [as stated in the Easst Sudan Peace Agreement], half of the money has already been spent. No description is given for what the money purchased though...

http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=66712


January 12, 2011

Khartoum pressure in the east?

In an unsubstantiated report, an American Beja Congress representative said that the Bashir regime was applying more pressure in the east, just before the southern referendum, to control the region.

Ibrahim Taher, told al Qanat in Washington DC that the Bashir regime is setting up training camps in the Port Sudan area in order to prepare for launching extremists into action. Taher said the Iranians are pressuring the regime to maintain full control over the region which is very close to the southern borders of Egypt. The Beja leader fears the regime will use the time when the world is focusing on the south to strike in the East.

English translation: [original Arabic below]

Representative of the Beja warns of serious risks ahead of a referendum in the South 

The representative of the tribes of the Beja stationed in the east of Sudan warned of the serious dangers threatening the presence of majority ethnic group, the Beja of eastern Sudan and adjacent to the Egyptian border and Eritrea. The central authority in Khartoum seeks to control the region and its resources in Port Sudan, where in the east of the country it is the only outlet to the central authority of the Red Sea. and especially before the referendum on the south.
 
Ibrahim Al-Tahir, the representative of the National Conference of Beja in Washington, said in a rare interview to the reporter, that the escalation of repression by the authority of the Bashir regime came before the referendum in the south, which aims to arbitration control of the eastern Sudan. 


Tahir stressed that the Iranian regime put pressure on Khartoum to expand the pillars along the shore of the Sudanese Red Sea, and provide more facilities to the military presence of Iran's growing, aiming initially to sprawl to the east of Sudan and in particular to the port of Port Sudan, and to areas near the Egyptian border. 

The National Conference of Beja, I object to the relevant community, the presence of training bases for terrorist groups in eastern Sudan, are supervised by Sudanese intelligence. 


ممثل البيجا يحذر من مخاطر جسيمة قبل استفتاء الجنوب
حذر ممثل قبائل البيجا المتمركزة شرق السودان، من مخاطر جسيمة تهدد الوجود الاتني للأكثرية البيجية شرق السودان والملاصقة للحدود المصرية والاريترية, وذلك من قبل السلطة المركزية في الخرطوم, التي تسعى إلى السيطرة على المنطقة ومواردها في بور سودان, وخاصة قبل الاستفتاء على الجنوب, حيث أن شرق البلاد يعتبر المنفذ الوحيد للسلطة المركزية للبحر الأحمر.
وأضاف إبراهيم الطاهر, ممثل المؤتمر الوطني للبيجا بواشنطن في حديث نادر لمراسل , أن تصاعد عمليات القمع من قبل سلطة نظام البشير جاء قبل الاستفتاء في الجنوب, والذي يهدف إلى تحكيم السيطرة على شرق السودان.
وشدد الطاهر على أن النظام الإيراني يضغط على الخرطوم من أجل توسيع دعائمه على طول الشاطئ السوداني للبحر الأحمر, ومنح المزيد من التسهيلات العسكرية للوجود الإيراني المتنامي والهادف أصلا إلى الامتداد نحو شرق السودان وبالذات إلى منفذ بور سودان, وإلى المناطق القريبة من الحدود المصرية.
وقال إن المؤتمر الوطني للبيجا, أعترض لدي الأوساط ذات الشأن, على تواجد قواعد تدريب لمجموعات إرهابية في شرق السودان, تشرف عليها أجهزة الاستخبارات السودانية.
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