African Spring or African Slaughter?

As undefined “rebels” unleash their power in Libya, thanks to U.S. and NATO intervention, the besieged Nuba people of central Sudan remain without any similar support. The architects of the “Arab Spring,” which may prove to be seven times more wicked than the regimes it supplants in Egypt and Libya, have been supported by both the bully pulpit of President Obama and the firepower of the West. But there seems to be no similar responsibility to protect Sudan’s black African Nuba people from their genocidal government, or from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops that reportedly have now joined in the attack on this marginalized people group.  Neither the U.S. nor NATO has offered the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-Northern Sector (SPLA-North) the support which they offered Egypt and Libya’s protestors.

Osman Mirghani: A Sudanese lesson for Arab revolutions

After some hesitation and an initial media blackout regarding the news of the Arab revolutions, when they were at their very peak in Tunisia and then Egypt, Sudanese officials began to change their stances and began to talk of the events as if they were following the example of the “Salvation Revolution” in Sudan.
The rulers in Sudan did not say that they were not Tunisia or Egypt, as others such as Muammar Qaddafi of Libya or President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen did, yet they went far beyond this when they spoke of their regime being the inspiration behind the Arab revolutions, in terms of its “steadfastness and approach,” and that these revolutions were carried out in support of the Sudanese experience.  This rhetoric was not only unconvincing to many, but also astonishing. President Omar al-Bashir’s regime, which celebrates its 22nd anniversary, is in fact contrary to all that the current Arab popular uprisings and revolutions stand for.

Breaking gender barriers in South Sudan

Despite taunts and prejudice, four girls are training to become the country's first women mechanics.  Nura Koleji rubs her toe in the ochre dust, hugs her knees to her stomach, and keeps her eyes firmly downcast — until we hit on the one topic she is bubbling to talk about. It is not how she fled her village of Lanya when AK47-wielding soldiers arrived from the north during the Sudanese civil war. Nor how they kidnapped her brother to train him as a child soldier; how she watched as they picked out victims and shot them; or how her two uncles were among those butchered in front of her.   It is not even the topic I am here to speak to her about — why she decided to train as a mechanic. What really riles Nura is men's dominance in the workplace. Last week South Sudan, became an independent country following a 22-year war that ended in 2005. And in this brand new country, women such as Nura are keen to see changes.

 Eritrea Tyrant: They Are Liars, The Earth Is Flat Not A Globe!

The last episode of DUPE THE NATION television drama series by, with, and featuring Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki aired on Sunday past with tyrant Afewarki's umpteenth attempt to dupe the nation into believing that 'they are liars, the Earth is flat not a globe'!  The show aired a marvelous display of delusion and schizophrenic paranoia exhibited live in the person of Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki par excellence!  Here few examples of how Eritrea tyrant expresses that:  Popular Uprising: There is no such thing! It is an uprising incited, fomented and financed by Foreigners in order to get rid of regimes that do not serve their interests to their satisfaction and those that don't allow them to exploit national resources.