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Beerbones 

Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer

Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.

Beware of Sudan's secessionist demons

Sudan is about to break up into two states, and regional stability is at risk. The first worrying sign was the whitewash of the presidential election there held last April by no less a seasoned elections monitor than Jimmy Carter. 

In South Sudan, a delayed vote could mean the collapse of fragile peace

youth on separationJUBA, Sudan -- "Nothing can stop this referendum," Nixon Simon told me last week in a restaurant in the fledgling capital of South Sudan. Simon, a forestry engineer, had just come home to Juba after fleeing as a refugee 20 years ago. But his words could have come from any southerner.

ANALYSIS: Is Egypt out of Africa

CAIRO: “Nasser, angered by criticism, says US can ‘jump in lake’.” So read the front-page New York Times headline on Christmas eve 1964.  America had just threatened to withdraw aid from Egypt in retaliation for Nasser’s support for Congolese rebels fighting the US-backed government.

Miss South Sudan
Miss South Sudan

Social or Political Apathy?

Daily newspapers are afloat with scattered political talk that lacks a focus or perhaps a plan for the next step. Most political leaders haven’t put forth a mission statement or even a roadmap for the country come referendum time
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Selfish call for early border demarcation in Sudan

It was reported in the international media this week that some political forces in Sudan have called for an early demarcation of the borders between the South and the North before the referendum on self-determination, wrote Azraj Omar in a comment piece for the London-based newspaper Al Arab.

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Sudan, on the Brink, Again [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I know there's a lot to worry about at home, but Sudan-watchers are worried that that ravaged land is on the brink of more violence, of the worst kind.

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Family celebrates start of a new life 
FOR Mach Maluak this Christmas is about hope...

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His Gift Changes Lives
Here’s a story for the holiday season. A 30-year-old...

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Reformist Writer Mansour Al-Hadj: In My Youth, I Was Taught to Love Death In an article in the...

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