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Sudanese surgeon Nahid Toubia — president of RAINBO ( Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women ) — told the BBC in 2002 that campaigning against FGM involved trying to change women's consciousness: " By allowing your genitals to be removed is perceived that you are heightened to another level of pure motherhood — a motherhood not tainted by sexuality and that is why the woman gives it away to become the matron, respected by everyone.
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Sudanese and —
Having become Sirdar of the Egyptian Army in 1892-with the rank of brigadier-general and then major-general in the British Army — in 1896 he led his British and Egyptian forces up the Nile, building a railway to supply arms and reinforcements, and defeating the Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, near Khartoum.
Present-day Nobiin speakers are almost universally bilingual in local varieties of Arabic — Egyptian and Sudanese.
During a two year ( 1956 – 58 ) leave of absence he also served as vice-chancellor ( president ) of the University of Khartoum — upon his departure, he turned the university over to the newly independent Sudanese government.
A Yemeni, a Sudanese, a Filipino, a Pakistani and a Sri Lankan — all employees of the consulate — were killed, and about ten others were wounded.
The population of Girrawheen was ethnically mixed — while 57. 4 % were born in Australia, significant percentages of Vietnamese ( 4. 2 %), Burmese ( 2. 1 %) and Sudanese ( 1. 8 %) migrants were also reported.
Sudanese and president
Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to " destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad.
Bozizé says that he is afraid of getting involved in the Darfur crisis and claims that the solution is in the hands of the Sudanese president.
Following the withdrawal of Senegal from the federation in August 1960, the former Sudanese Republic became the Republic of Mali on 22 September 1960, with Modibo Keïta as president.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has backed up the country and other Muslim states, requiring them to boycott Danish products just as Sudan did.
* Gaafar Nimeiry, Former Sudanese president
* The Sudanese government cancels plans to attend scheduled peace talks in Geneva with western rebels just days after the Sudanese president proclaimed military victory in the insurgency.
Charles Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group, concedes there is an increase in slave-taking since 1995 in terms of the growing intensity of the Sudanese war, but rebukes characterizations that it creates a market for the slave trade.
After being missing for more than 24 hours, the Ugandan president reported it to the Sudanese government which contacted SPLM for more information.
* Ibrahim Abood Ahmed: former commander in chief of Sudanese military forces and president of Sudan
Reports in January 2010 that Kiir would not contest April elections for Sudanese president, but would focus on re-election as president of Southern Sudan were interpreted to mean that the SPLM priority is independence.
On December 20, 2011 Kiir visited Israel to thank it for its support during the First Sudanese Civil War in 1956 – 1972, and met with Israeli president Shimon Peres to discuss establishing an embassy in Jerusalem, which would make them the only country to have one there.
* Sudanese Union / African Democratic Rally ( Soudanaise-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, US-RDA ), party of the former president Modibo Keïta
Sudanese and for
The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.
Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.
The Sudanese government was blamed for the attack, which was the second in the region in three days, but Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim denies any Sudanese involvement, " We are not for any escalation with Chad.
This rate is a small fraction of the millions killed in the Second Sudanese Civil War and Cambodian Civil War, for example, but excludes several highly publicized conflicts, such as The Troubles of Northern Ireland and the struggle of the African National Congress in Apartheid-era South Africa.
While normalization of ties continues, Eritrea has been recognized as a broker for peace between the separate factions of the Sudanese civil war.
Instead, popular opinion is that they were being clandestinely imported for the southern Sudanese army, which has an arms embargo against it.
She was granted Sudanese citizenship for her services to the country, becoming the first foreigner to receive a Sudanese passport.
* 2009 – The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
With the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation abolished in 1993 and the ruling National Islamic Front ( NIF ) forming the National Congress Party ( NCP ), the new party included some non-Muslim members ; mainly Southern Sudanese politicians, some of whom were appointed as ministers or state governors.
Since January 2007, a new currency was introduced in parallel to the Sudanese dinar (< tt > SDG </ tt >), the new Sudanese pound (< tt > SDG </ tt >) at the conversion rate of one new pound for one hundred dinars ( or one thousand old pounds ).
This was a grave mistake, for the Sudanese had fought together in World War II and this broke unit cohesion.
This is significant for the Sudanese, for it was the first time it had an independent army that was not governed by Britain or Egypt.
Sudanese and told
" The Chairman of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries, who is critical of the Sudanese government, more recently told reporters: " I had inventories of every chemical and records of every employee's history.
The Chairman of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries, who is critical of the Sudanese government, more recently told reporters, " I had inventories of every chemical and records of every employee's history.
She is even featured in a school assembly to promote the work of Global Vision where she makes the school repeat after her in the Sudanese language what Sonali told her when they parted at the Detention centre where Sonali is staying.
Sudanese and BBC
Al Jazeera was represented by Samir Khader, a senior producer, Hassan Ibrahim, a Sudanese journalist who attended American universities and headed the BBC Arab News Service before joining Al Jazeera, and Dima Khatib, a Syrian journalist and a producer at Al Jazeera.
Sudanese and 2002
Switzerland played a key role in brokering a truce agreement between the Sudanese Government and Sudan People's Liberation Army for the Nuba Mountains region, signed after a week's negotiations taking place near Lucerne in January 2002.
He criticized the Bush administration in 2002 over negotiations with the genocidal regime in Sudan, and has urged Bush to stop payment of oil revenues to the Sudanese government.
The Uganda Peoples Defense Force ( UPDF ) launched " Operation Iron Fist " against LRA rebels in northern Uganda in 2002 and conducted operations against LRA sanctuaries in southern Sudan with the permission of the Sudanese Government.
In 2002 she made her acting debut in The Four Feathers as Sudanese princess Aquol.
In 2002 a group led by Mohamad Ali Jadein broke away from the branch and established the independent Sudanese Ba ' ath Party, which has no affiliation with either the Iraqi-led Ba ' ath movement or the Syrian-led Ba ' ath movement.
In 2002, the average Sudanese consumed 58 kWh of electricity per year, i. e., about one fifteenth of their Egyptian neighbors to the north, and less than one hundredth of the OECD average.
Sudanese and against
The western Sanhaja had been converted to Islam sometime in the 9th C. They were subsequently united in the 10th C., and with the zeal of neophyte converts launched several campaigns against the " Sudanese " ( pagan black peoples of sub-Saharan Africa ).
The riveted mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but also proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.
The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.
They also used the Ethiopians as a proxy army against the Sudanese Mahdists.
The victory in this campaign, along with previous victories against the Sudanese Mahdists, led the Italians to underestimate the difficulties to overcome in a campaign against Menelik.
* 1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army / Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
The subsequent investigation revealed that Sudan was involved in this act, forcing the Ethiopian government to take a series of steps against Sudan that September, which included closing the Sudanese consulate in Gambela, reducing the number of Sudanese embassy staff, and terminating all Sudan Airways and Ethiopian Airlines flights between the two countries.
The most recent 2005 UN referral to the ICC of Darfur resulted in an indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2008.
A " no-action " motion, presented by the Sudanese Representative to counter Belgium's request for a vote, passed with nine Committee members voting in favour ( Burundi, China, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan and Venezuela ), seven voting against ( Belgium, Bulgaria, India, Israel, Turkey, Peru and United States ), with Kyrgyzstan abstaining and Mozambique and Cuba not present.
* 2006 – In December the Tamworth Regional Council voted 6 to 3 against an offer from the Federal Government to take part in a one-year trial rural refugee resettlement programme ; the majority of these refugees would be Sudanese escaping civil war in their homeland.
While his challenge to the legitimacy of Turco-Egyptian rule, and the Sublime Porte by extension, set many of the religious elite against him, some of his radical changes to Islamic doctrine and practice alienated other Muslim scholars, both Sudanese and foreign.
To stiffen the flagging efforts of his army against the NRA, Okello invited former soldiers of Amin's army to reenter Uganda from the Sudanese refugee camps and participate in the civil war on the government side.
Amir Ageeb or Aamir Ageeb ( c. 1969-May 28, 1999 ) was a Sudanese who was killed while resisting deportation from Germany, leading to a lawsuit against the involved officers.
Kipling was specifically referring to the Hadendowa, who fought the British, supporting the " Mahdi ," a Sudanese leader of a rebellion against the Turkish rule administered by the British.
He has also criticized China's protection of the Sudanese government against UN Security Council sanctions.
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