For visitors familiar with the five-star hotels of Africa's main
cities, Mango River's reputation as one of the best places to stay in
Juba, the capital of semi-autonomous south Sudan, can be misleading.
Not only does it have no stars, it is not even a hotel. Instead it is
a camp, which mixes the bleak uniformity of an army barracks with a
few other-worldly creature comforts, and, in the process, has become
an emblem for the rough-and- tumble boom town.
Guests are housed in khaki tents that trap the 40°C heat like an oven
but also have wireless internet access and a bar that serves Bloody
Mary cocktails. Until a recent price war it was charging $132 (€91,
£68) a night and is the peculiar product of the wild-west capitalism
driving a vibrant, foreign-run economy in Juba.
But as entrepreneurs repatriate their quick bucks, the town's economy
is stagnating and the process of development has barely started.
The divide between the two does matter because it means south Sudan is
not building what it needs: the foundations of a viable state. Its
government was formed by Christian bush fighters in 2005 after they
signed a peace deal that ended a five-decade civil war with the
Arab-led north and promised a referendum on secession in 2011.
But the administration has struggled to manage a unique combination of
forces: $1.1bn of non- humanitarian aid over the past two years,
$1.3bn of annual oil revenue, and an influx of United Nations
peacekeepers and tough- minded business people.
Because of inexperience, corruption and the absence of any state
apparatus - as well as the international community's decision to focus
on Darfur - it has little to show for its efforts. Until three years
ago Juba was a garrison town controlled by Khartoum and it remains
little more than a super-sized village with barely 1km of paved road.
Nobody is sure how many residents it has - estimates range from
320,000 to 1m - but most live in mud huts and their number is reckoned
to have doubled in the past three years as refugees return.
The beneficiaries of the boom are outsiders such as Henrik Tobiesen, a
former United Nations de-mining expert from Denmark, who last year set
up another place to stay called Global Camp. "I looked around and it
was ridiculous," he says. "There was no competition. You could do
anything."
Juba has at least a dozen similar camps charging up to $250 a night,
most of them filled with UN officials and aid workers. They are owned
by Kenyans and Egyptians, or companies such as Afex Group of the US
and Unity Resources Group from Australia, which controls Mango River.
The majority of their employees are non-Sudanese too.
The same is true of the bars and restaurants that cater to development
workers as well as civil servants and soldiers from the Sudan People's
Liberation Army, whose wages consume 70 per cent of south Sudan's
oil-flushed budget, according to one donor consultant.
Whereas Juba was supplied by air from Khartoum during the war, today
almost everything consumed by the town's better-off inhabitants - from
potatoes and pineapples to Pringles crisps and Johnnie Walker whisky -
is imported by road by Ugandan traders, although their supply lines
have been disrupted by Kenya's chaos.
The traders congregate in Custom Market, a bustling maze of shacks and
parasols where Caroline Ninisima, who is saving to study business
administration in Kampala, sells paint brushes, pliers and pipes to
the construction industry.
"I came to make money," she says. "In Uganda there are very many
competitors, but here the need for building materials is big and the
competitors are few."
David Gressly, the deputy resident co-ordinator for the UN, says the
town's cowboy capitalism must be tamed: "One of the key challenges . .
. is to put in place an investment code, together with clear laws on
property rights that are enforced by the judiciary."
The camp hotels contribute "peanuts" to the government, says Barri
Wanji, chair of the south Sudan parliament's finance committee. But he
adds: "Let me reassure you we know what's going on. We've decided to
let them have a good time until we get the legal system in place."
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Dr. John's Unique political number line
August 5, 2008 — This July, we need to make a progress report on Dr John Garang’s solution modalities in the Sudan conflict. According to the digression, Sudan can only exist in one of five possible political formats. He presented his thesis in a scientific approach with a mathematical illustration. So far I have not seen any challenge to his model. The sequencing of the presentation of the models is intriguing because it never follows the standard number line; one- two- three- four- five. Instead he had his own number pattern; three-four-two-one-five. In this review we shall retain Dr John’s unique number line.
Model 3
Before January 9th 2005, the Sudan was an Arab Islamic state in which the South was a tolerated but dominated entity within it. This model was the cause of the conflict. As long as it remained in effect, the country would be unstable and could, in the long run lead to the break up of the country. In Garang’s own words: “Model 3 is the present Islamic Arab Sudan. It is the problem. The non Arab and non Moslems are excluded from this type of Sudan. Now it is even worse. To be included in this Sudan one has to be an NIF. So those of Mansour Khalid are not included in this type of Sudan. This model is unstable. It has led to two wars: the Anyanya war and the present SPLM/SPLA war. That is the old Sudan and it must go”.
Today, we can say that the CPA has vindicated Dr John Garang’s assertion with respect to Model 3. It has been outlawed by the CPA and the interim national constitution. Has it actually vanished in practice? Yes and no; depending on which part of the elephant the blind man is touching. If you ask Comrade Salva Kiir, the old Sudan is staggering away like a drunken man. Whether it will reach the horizon and disappear or return to torment us is the mother of all questions. Dr Mansour Khalid describes the CPA as the bridge between the old and the New Sudan. The fate of the Sudan will depend on whether our leaders choose to cross the bridge or to double cross it.
Model 4 is the inverse of model three; a secular African State where the North is a tolerated but dominated entity within a united Sudan. Like model three, this arrangement would be unstable and could also lead to the break up of the country in the long run. According to Dr Garang, “Model 4 is for a united black African Sudan. It is a hypothetical model but it is not far fetched. If the 31 % Arab population can claim to have an Arab Sudan, there is no reason why the 69% Africans cannot claim a black African Sudan. This model is also unstable. The non Africans can resist this model and call for their own state”. This arrangement never existed in Sudan’s contemporary history so it is really provided as a scientific analogy.
Model 2
The Sudan is now three years into model two which for all practical purposes is the CPA arrangement of temporary power sharing. The CPA created a one-country-two systems Sudan as we all know. There are some salient and subtle differences between the CPA and the original model two. Model two speaks about three entities; a Southern state a Northern state and a common entity (Confederate Government). The CPA has only two governments: a Southern and a National government. It is very interesting to read Dr John’s pre-CPA text and see, with the benefit of our three years’ experience, whether the North and the South are converging towards a more cohesive unity or drifting farther apart. He said “model two is a transitional model. This is the confederal model. The essence of it is that we have two states; one in the north and one in the south linked by a central authority responsible for the matters in which we have an agreement. These are what we call the commonalities. It is a model to end the war. You end the war by accepting the realities of the country. There is no way, for instance, in which we can compromise on the question of Islamic Sharia no matter how it is coated. We believe that we must leave the issue of Sharia or no Sharia to each state to decide for itself. Those who want it can have it 100%. They can cut off their hands if they want to. We are opposed to the practice but we are not going to stick out our necks for it.
Meanwhile in the South we would have a secular state. This model can end the war and can be stable during the interim period. It is also a model that can resolve the issue of Islamic fundamentalism if there is cooperation from the international community. If we have a Sudan that is characterized by this structure and we have free movement of people, goods and services, this would provide a serious challenge to the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism in the Sudan and beyond. If the southern part of our country develops very rapidly and has the correct economic and political system, then it would have a demonstration effect on the north. We would have development going from the south to the north. I have given the example of somebody sitting in Khartoum thirsty for a glass of cold beer. Since there is freedom of movement he can get his cold beer in Juba. So he will have to take a flight to Juba each time he needs a beer. After a while he will begin to ask why he cannot have his beer in Khartoum. Thus during the interim period, if the Southern economy works very well, the pilgrimage might be to Juba rather than to Mecca. This is how communism collapsed. It was undermined through the demonstration effect. In this respect, this model is subversive”.
Model 1
During the transitional or interim period, the people of the north and the south can reduce their historical disagreements over identity, development, discrimination, stereotyping, domination, marginalization, prejudice etcetera. During this period, the northerners and the southerners can expand their areas of common interest like patriotism, nationalism, health, religious tolerance, culture, sports etcetera. If these things happen, the Southern and Northern entities would merge to form one united democratic secular Sudan of justice and equality for all regardless of religion, race or gender. In Dr Garang’s words, “The confederal model can lead to the creation of the New Sudan through the expansion of the commonalties over time. That is the maximum possible outcome. The SPLM/SPLA National Convention decided not to wait for that day. They have already defined the New Sudan to consist, for the time being, of the South as per its borders of January 1956 and the areas of Southern Kordofan and Southern Blue Nile. Other parts of the country may join as future developments unfold.
Model 5
If Model two fails to reconcile northern and southern aspirations, then the inevitable outcome would be a break up of the country. If, during the interim period, disequilibrium in economic development continues to persist between the north and the south, if we do not come to terms with the reality that we are Sudanese first and anything else second, if the factors that unite do not expand, if the factors that divide do not diminish, then the Sudan falls apart. Model 5 is therefore a residual result of our failure to unite rather than a strategic objective. Let us get this point from the horse’s mouth. “The confederal model can also lead to the disintegration of the country through the diminution of the commonalties during the interim period or the lack of them in the first place. We underlined this very point in Abuja (in 1992); that if we cannot rise to the challenge and move to the New Sudan, it is better that the Sudan breaks up (to two parts) before it breaks down (to innumerable fragments)”.
Model 3
Before January 9th 2005, the Sudan was an Arab Islamic state in which the South was a tolerated but dominated entity within it. This model was the cause of the conflict. As long as it remained in effect, the country would be unstable and could, in the long run lead to the break up of the country. In Garang’s own words: “Model 3 is the present Islamic Arab Sudan. It is the problem. The non Arab and non Moslems are excluded from this type of Sudan. Now it is even worse. To be included in this Sudan one has to be an NIF. So those of Mansour Khalid are not included in this type of Sudan. This model is unstable. It has led to two wars: the Anyanya war and the present SPLM/SPLA war. That is the old Sudan and it must go”.
Today, we can say that the CPA has vindicated Dr John Garang’s assertion with respect to Model 3. It has been outlawed by the CPA and the interim national constitution. Has it actually vanished in practice? Yes and no; depending on which part of the elephant the blind man is touching. If you ask Comrade Salva Kiir, the old Sudan is staggering away like a drunken man. Whether it will reach the horizon and disappear or return to torment us is the mother of all questions. Dr Mansour Khalid describes the CPA as the bridge between the old and the New Sudan. The fate of the Sudan will depend on whether our leaders choose to cross the bridge or to double cross it.
Model 4 is the inverse of model three; a secular African State where the North is a tolerated but dominated entity within a united Sudan. Like model three, this arrangement would be unstable and could also lead to the break up of the country in the long run. According to Dr Garang, “Model 4 is for a united black African Sudan. It is a hypothetical model but it is not far fetched. If the 31 % Arab population can claim to have an Arab Sudan, there is no reason why the 69% Africans cannot claim a black African Sudan. This model is also unstable. The non Africans can resist this model and call for their own state”. This arrangement never existed in Sudan’s contemporary history so it is really provided as a scientific analogy.
Model 2
The Sudan is now three years into model two which for all practical purposes is the CPA arrangement of temporary power sharing. The CPA created a one-country-two systems Sudan as we all know. There are some salient and subtle differences between the CPA and the original model two. Model two speaks about three entities; a Southern state a Northern state and a common entity (Confederate Government). The CPA has only two governments: a Southern and a National government. It is very interesting to read Dr John’s pre-CPA text and see, with the benefit of our three years’ experience, whether the North and the South are converging towards a more cohesive unity or drifting farther apart. He said “model two is a transitional model. This is the confederal model. The essence of it is that we have two states; one in the north and one in the south linked by a central authority responsible for the matters in which we have an agreement. These are what we call the commonalities. It is a model to end the war. You end the war by accepting the realities of the country. There is no way, for instance, in which we can compromise on the question of Islamic Sharia no matter how it is coated. We believe that we must leave the issue of Sharia or no Sharia to each state to decide for itself. Those who want it can have it 100%. They can cut off their hands if they want to. We are opposed to the practice but we are not going to stick out our necks for it.
Meanwhile in the South we would have a secular state. This model can end the war and can be stable during the interim period. It is also a model that can resolve the issue of Islamic fundamentalism if there is cooperation from the international community. If we have a Sudan that is characterized by this structure and we have free movement of people, goods and services, this would provide a serious challenge to the appeal of Islamic fundamentalism in the Sudan and beyond. If the southern part of our country develops very rapidly and has the correct economic and political system, then it would have a demonstration effect on the north. We would have development going from the south to the north. I have given the example of somebody sitting in Khartoum thirsty for a glass of cold beer. Since there is freedom of movement he can get his cold beer in Juba. So he will have to take a flight to Juba each time he needs a beer. After a while he will begin to ask why he cannot have his beer in Khartoum. Thus during the interim period, if the Southern economy works very well, the pilgrimage might be to Juba rather than to Mecca. This is how communism collapsed. It was undermined through the demonstration effect. In this respect, this model is subversive”.
Model 1
During the transitional or interim period, the people of the north and the south can reduce their historical disagreements over identity, development, discrimination, stereotyping, domination, marginalization, prejudice etcetera. During this period, the northerners and the southerners can expand their areas of common interest like patriotism, nationalism, health, religious tolerance, culture, sports etcetera. If these things happen, the Southern and Northern entities would merge to form one united democratic secular Sudan of justice and equality for all regardless of religion, race or gender. In Dr Garang’s words, “The confederal model can lead to the creation of the New Sudan through the expansion of the commonalties over time. That is the maximum possible outcome. The SPLM/SPLA National Convention decided not to wait for that day. They have already defined the New Sudan to consist, for the time being, of the South as per its borders of January 1956 and the areas of Southern Kordofan and Southern Blue Nile. Other parts of the country may join as future developments unfold.
Model 5
If Model two fails to reconcile northern and southern aspirations, then the inevitable outcome would be a break up of the country. If, during the interim period, disequilibrium in economic development continues to persist between the north and the south, if we do not come to terms with the reality that we are Sudanese first and anything else second, if the factors that unite do not expand, if the factors that divide do not diminish, then the Sudan falls apart. Model 5 is therefore a residual result of our failure to unite rather than a strategic objective. Let us get this point from the horse’s mouth. “The confederal model can also lead to the disintegration of the country through the diminution of the commonalties during the interim period or the lack of them in the first place. We underlined this very point in Abuja (in 1992); that if we cannot rise to the challenge and move to the New Sudan, it is better that the Sudan breaks up (to two parts) before it breaks down (to innumerable fragments)”.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Recovery and development in Southern Sudan:
Recovery and development in Southern Sudan:
Achievements of 2006
Just a year after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) the Sudan’s people Liberation Movement have done more in the following areas, formation of the Government of South Sudan ( GOSS), Constitutional development , Accountability; Public Financial management ,Public administration ,Basic services and social sectors ,Infrastructure ,Economic services ,Security
Government of Southern Sudan
With an inadequate inflow of resources relative to the requirements and commitments, the SPLM have established the basic structure of good governance in South Sudan with operationalisation of GoSS and federal level entities, States and Counties. It has selected initiatives to establish governance structure in states with their basic financial and administrative support to counties.
Constitutional development
The basis for democratic transition in GoSS and state governments firmly established was put in order with the formation of the South Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA), putting it fully operational with functioning sub committees and fully engaged in legislation and budgetary approval and review. In addition, the SPLM has constituted ten state governments and legislative assemblies and Seven tier judicial structure (Supreme court, Appeal courts, High Courts, County courts and Traditional Authorities) were all put in place. The number of judges being increased. The capacity of the judicial system to provide timely and efficient justice being strengthened, nineteen autonomous commissions were constituted and are being operationalised however additional resources are required.
Accountability; Public Financial management
Here are more highlights of how SPLM has been managing its own budget.
• The budget process
• 96%of the 2006 budget outlay was spent due to lower than expected oil revenues and irregular transfers despite draw down from reserves.
• Only 66% of the budgeted development outlay could be spent due to low capacity to manage the procurement process and resource constraint.
• Donor support remained below budgeted levels.
• Budget sector working groups have been formed for planning purposes. Budget design for 2007 was inclusive and involved all stakeholders.
• Budget for 2007 presented on time to Legislative Assembly and approved with a slight lag.
• Public sector accounting and expenditure management
• An Accounting Agent is in place to manage aggregate accounts of GoSS and a separate Project Accounting Agent for MDTF transactions is being appointed.
• In 2007 budget outturns will be submitted on a quarterly basis to SSLA.
• Public Financial Act and an Income tax Act are being drafted to institutionalise the structures for accountability and transparency.
• Interim Procurement Regulations are in place and are being followed by GoSS
• A Procurement Agent has been appointed to manage all government procurement.
• Safeguards
• The Anti corruption commission has been operationalised.
• Strict disciplinary action has been taken against errant senior public servants
• Forensic audits are ongoing to identify and root out corruption in government.
• The Auditor general is in place and External Auditors are being appointed.
• The Southern Sudan Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC) has been constituted and will guide government on inter governmental transfers.
Public administration
The SPLM has set Cabinet system in GoSS and states and fully put it operational. Twenty Three Ministries of GoSS and all State Governments are functional. Civil service was established and the process of integration of cadres, recruitment and evaluation of capacity ongoing. Inter governmental relations in Southern Sudan being guided by process of phased decentralisation. In its external relations, the SPLM has arrangements for formal bilateral interaction for economic cooperation established in eight countries and sixteen consulates established in Juba.
Basic services and social sectors
The Presidents 200 day plan implemented successfully, Education, health and social sector programmes aligned to target MDG indicators.
• Education
3000 teachers were recruited, including from returnees. Programme for rehabilitating physical infrastructure of basic, secondary and higher education were launched, Vocational training facilities being revamped. Alternate education strategies for adults, war affected and those with special needs being launched.
• Health
Physical infrastructure of primary health care was rehabilitated. Key hospitals have been rehabilitated. The strength of health care personnel were increased through recruitment.
• Social sectors
• Gender
• War affected
• SSRC
Infrastructure
• Roads programme been put operational with 84 km of city roads and 2500 km of intercity roads being completed. Juba port capacity a air terminal capacity being Juba enhanced
• Drinking water supply being enhanced with significant numbers of boreholes and wells dug and rehabilitation of the water and sewage system in Juba have been rehabilitated.
• Electricity generation and distribution capacity have been enhanced
• Telecommunications network being developed with VSAT connectivity completed for all state capitals
• Public housing stock being rehabilitated and enhanced
Economic services
• Planned boost for agricultural productivity being implemented. Facilities for livestock and fisheries management enhanced. Support for industries being implemented. Facilities for private investment enhanced. Support for development of markets underway. Trade facilitation being implemented
Security
• Police recruitment and training under progress. Correctional facilities being rehabilitated. DDR being implemented. Internal security improved with Reduction in incidents of tribal conflict and Enhanced policing of inter city routes. Joint Integrated Units were put in place
The way ahead;
Challenges for 2007
• Consolidation of early achievements for GoSS
• Capacity building and strategic interventions for service delivery in states and counties
• Facilitating donor support:
• Technical assistance and financial support required to deal with the low capacity of public entities.
• Domestic resources are inadequate and must be supplemented by larger donor support for enhancing pro-poor spending and infrastructure
• Improving the inclusiveness, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of governments pro- poor interventions
Achievements of 2006
Just a year after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) the Sudan’s people Liberation Movement have done more in the following areas, formation of the Government of South Sudan ( GOSS), Constitutional development , Accountability; Public Financial management ,Public administration ,Basic services and social sectors ,Infrastructure ,Economic services ,Security
Government of Southern Sudan
With an inadequate inflow of resources relative to the requirements and commitments, the SPLM have established the basic structure of good governance in South Sudan with operationalisation of GoSS and federal level entities, States and Counties. It has selected initiatives to establish governance structure in states with their basic financial and administrative support to counties.
Constitutional development
The basis for democratic transition in GoSS and state governments firmly established was put in order with the formation of the South Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA), putting it fully operational with functioning sub committees and fully engaged in legislation and budgetary approval and review. In addition, the SPLM has constituted ten state governments and legislative assemblies and Seven tier judicial structure (Supreme court, Appeal courts, High Courts, County courts and Traditional Authorities) were all put in place. The number of judges being increased. The capacity of the judicial system to provide timely and efficient justice being strengthened, nineteen autonomous commissions were constituted and are being operationalised however additional resources are required.
Accountability; Public Financial management
Here are more highlights of how SPLM has been managing its own budget.
• The budget process
• 96%of the 2006 budget outlay was spent due to lower than expected oil revenues and irregular transfers despite draw down from reserves.
• Only 66% of the budgeted development outlay could be spent due to low capacity to manage the procurement process and resource constraint.
• Donor support remained below budgeted levels.
• Budget sector working groups have been formed for planning purposes. Budget design for 2007 was inclusive and involved all stakeholders.
• Budget for 2007 presented on time to Legislative Assembly and approved with a slight lag.
• Public sector accounting and expenditure management
• An Accounting Agent is in place to manage aggregate accounts of GoSS and a separate Project Accounting Agent for MDTF transactions is being appointed.
• In 2007 budget outturns will be submitted on a quarterly basis to SSLA.
• Public Financial Act and an Income tax Act are being drafted to institutionalise the structures for accountability and transparency.
• Interim Procurement Regulations are in place and are being followed by GoSS
• A Procurement Agent has been appointed to manage all government procurement.
• Safeguards
• The Anti corruption commission has been operationalised.
• Strict disciplinary action has been taken against errant senior public servants
• Forensic audits are ongoing to identify and root out corruption in government.
• The Auditor general is in place and External Auditors are being appointed.
• The Southern Sudan Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC) has been constituted and will guide government on inter governmental transfers.
Public administration
The SPLM has set Cabinet system in GoSS and states and fully put it operational. Twenty Three Ministries of GoSS and all State Governments are functional. Civil service was established and the process of integration of cadres, recruitment and evaluation of capacity ongoing. Inter governmental relations in Southern Sudan being guided by process of phased decentralisation. In its external relations, the SPLM has arrangements for formal bilateral interaction for economic cooperation established in eight countries and sixteen consulates established in Juba.
Basic services and social sectors
The Presidents 200 day plan implemented successfully, Education, health and social sector programmes aligned to target MDG indicators.
• Education
3000 teachers were recruited, including from returnees. Programme for rehabilitating physical infrastructure of basic, secondary and higher education were launched, Vocational training facilities being revamped. Alternate education strategies for adults, war affected and those with special needs being launched.
• Health
Physical infrastructure of primary health care was rehabilitated. Key hospitals have been rehabilitated. The strength of health care personnel were increased through recruitment.
• Social sectors
• Gender
• War affected
• SSRC
Infrastructure
• Roads programme been put operational with 84 km of city roads and 2500 km of intercity roads being completed. Juba port capacity a air terminal capacity being Juba enhanced
• Drinking water supply being enhanced with significant numbers of boreholes and wells dug and rehabilitation of the water and sewage system in Juba have been rehabilitated.
• Electricity generation and distribution capacity have been enhanced
• Telecommunications network being developed with VSAT connectivity completed for all state capitals
• Public housing stock being rehabilitated and enhanced
Economic services
• Planned boost for agricultural productivity being implemented. Facilities for livestock and fisheries management enhanced. Support for industries being implemented. Facilities for private investment enhanced. Support for development of markets underway. Trade facilitation being implemented
Security
• Police recruitment and training under progress. Correctional facilities being rehabilitated. DDR being implemented. Internal security improved with Reduction in incidents of tribal conflict and Enhanced policing of inter city routes. Joint Integrated Units were put in place
The way ahead;
Challenges for 2007
• Consolidation of early achievements for GoSS
• Capacity building and strategic interventions for service delivery in states and counties
• Facilitating donor support:
• Technical assistance and financial support required to deal with the low capacity of public entities.
• Domestic resources are inadequate and must be supplemented by larger donor support for enhancing pro-poor spending and infrastructure
• Improving the inclusiveness, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of governments pro- poor interventions
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
South Sudan will never be a Nation
As south Sudan struggles to get it’s self a nation after 20 years of civil war which killed 2000000 people and displaced many more, people have perceived various concepts many of which are negative ideologies of the northerners, Arabs, who take advantage of the southerners by marginalizing them, letting them poor and poorer every day. In this article, I want to bring to you a quote from pro Ahmed who compared Southerners to pigs.
“The comparison that I compare some South Sudanese politicians as pigs is, and does not mean that South Sudanese are pigs, but their political ideology towards each other is like a pig's behaviors.
I'm surprised to see South Sudanese happy to be in Khartoum, when they killed so many and still smile with their enemies (North) asking for money.
I never mean all South Sudanese, only their politicians including head of communities, easily sold for money, easy deceived for money. I was not pro either Sudan government nor South Sudan, they are all criminals, but I was responding to a History of the country, if you know Sudan History well then you have no issue.
South Sudan will never be an independent country, me as as an expert on Sudan, and middle east, the subject of South Sudan be a free country is a dream, never will South Sudan be free, they them selves will run to the North for protection against each other, and for money from the North Sudan.
They sold them selves to the North because of positions, Money, houses, Cars.
Air condition, and for most, a house (Qadam) boy, Qadam is what they have never had, some of them were the (Qadamin) house boys them selves.
Have you seen the CPA worked on to this date? Nothing and they are now
driving good cars here in Khartoum.
What the Northerner are afraid in South Sudan are the Equatorian community only, they are politically enlightened but they never win from the majority tribes, the super power hungry grids”.
This is what they think of the southerners, yes, the south needs some money from the north, but that money is the 50% oil share that the north is looting from the south
Next I will bring to you developments in South Sudan After the CPA. See you
“The comparison that I compare some South Sudanese politicians as pigs is, and does not mean that South Sudanese are pigs, but their political ideology towards each other is like a pig's behaviors.
I'm surprised to see South Sudanese happy to be in Khartoum, when they killed so many and still smile with their enemies (North) asking for money.
I never mean all South Sudanese, only their politicians including head of communities, easily sold for money, easy deceived for money. I was not pro either Sudan government nor South Sudan, they are all criminals, but I was responding to a History of the country, if you know Sudan History well then you have no issue.
South Sudan will never be an independent country, me as as an expert on Sudan, and middle east, the subject of South Sudan be a free country is a dream, never will South Sudan be free, they them selves will run to the North for protection against each other, and for money from the North Sudan.
They sold them selves to the North because of positions, Money, houses, Cars.
Air condition, and for most, a house (Qadam) boy, Qadam is what they have never had, some of them were the (Qadamin) house boys them selves.
Have you seen the CPA worked on to this date? Nothing and they are now
driving good cars here in Khartoum.
What the Northerner are afraid in South Sudan are the Equatorian community only, they are politically enlightened but they never win from the majority tribes, the super power hungry grids”.
This is what they think of the southerners, yes, the south needs some money from the north, but that money is the 50% oil share that the north is looting from the south
Next I will bring to you developments in South Sudan After the CPA. See you
Monday, November 5, 2007
No more peace crisis says Salva Kiir
November 4, 2007 (KHARTOUM) ‹ Sudanese First Vice President and Chairman of the Sudan People¹s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit announced on Sunday that a current political crisis in the country had ended.
South Sudan leader and First Vice President Salva Kiir speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Nov 4, 2007 (AFP) "I confirm that the crisis is over," Mayardit told a press conference in Khartoum before leaving to USA, noting that when Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and he returned from visits abroad they would issue decisions on what had been agreed upon between them.
Al-Bashir left Khartoum on Saturday for a visit in Burundi and South Africa, while Salva Kiir will kick off a visit in the United States later Sunday.
The former rebel SPLM, which signed a peace agreement with al-Bashir¹s government in 2005, announced on Oct. 11 surprisingly a decision to suspend the participation of its ministers in the central government to protest over what it called a "procrastination" of the implementation of the peace deal.
"I confirm again that we are advancing on the peace road, and we want to send a placative message to the Sudanese people that we will not turn back from the implementation of the peace agreement, "Mayardit stressed.
He disclosed that in their last meeting, al-Bashir and he had worked out solutions for most of the differences, adding that the Abyei issue was the only pending problem to be solved soon.
The Khartoum government has insisted that Abyei, an enclave rich of oil locating on the north side of the so-called "1956 line " between the northern and southern Sudan, should be included in the northern territories while the southern Sudanese government led by Mayardit has laid a claim to it.
Mayardit said that his visit in the U.S. was aimed at informing the American administration of the progresses of implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a rule excluding southern Sudan from the sanctions imposed by Washington on Sudan since a decade.
The new rule revised the areas of Sudan covered by the sanctions and recognized the government of Southern Sudan as an entity separate from the Government of Sudan.
South Sudan leader and First Vice President Salva Kiir speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Nov 4, 2007 (AFP) "I confirm that the crisis is over," Mayardit told a press conference in Khartoum before leaving to USA, noting that when Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and he returned from visits abroad they would issue decisions on what had been agreed upon between them.
Al-Bashir left Khartoum on Saturday for a visit in Burundi and South Africa, while Salva Kiir will kick off a visit in the United States later Sunday.
The former rebel SPLM, which signed a peace agreement with al-Bashir¹s government in 2005, announced on Oct. 11 surprisingly a decision to suspend the participation of its ministers in the central government to protest over what it called a "procrastination" of the implementation of the peace deal.
"I confirm again that we are advancing on the peace road, and we want to send a placative message to the Sudanese people that we will not turn back from the implementation of the peace agreement, "Mayardit stressed.
He disclosed that in their last meeting, al-Bashir and he had worked out solutions for most of the differences, adding that the Abyei issue was the only pending problem to be solved soon.
The Khartoum government has insisted that Abyei, an enclave rich of oil locating on the north side of the so-called "1956 line " between the northern and southern Sudan, should be included in the northern territories while the southern Sudanese government led by Mayardit has laid a claim to it.
Mayardit said that his visit in the U.S. was aimed at informing the American administration of the progresses of implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a rule excluding southern Sudan from the sanctions imposed by Washington on Sudan since a decade.
The new rule revised the areas of Sudan covered by the sanctions and recognized the government of Southern Sudan as an entity separate from the Government of Sudan.
South Sudan says progress achieved to end peace crisis
November 2, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Southern Sudan announced Friday evening that a tangible progress had been achieved in its meeting with Khartoum late in the day to remove the current political crisis between the two main partners in the central government.
Luka Biong, minister of presidency in the southern Sudan government, made the announcement following a meeting between Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and First Vice President and Chairman of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit who represents the south.
This was the third meeting between al-Bashir and Mayardit since the latter took a decision on Oct. 11 to withhold his movement’s participation in the central government in Khartoum, causing the most serious political crisis in more than two years.
Biong told the official SUNA news agency that al-Bashir and Mayardit had agreed to set up a technical committee to map out decisions regarding with the census, the demarcation of the permanent boundaries between northern and southern Sudan as well as the national unity.
He said that the two sides had ironed out all the differences except "simple problems" on the situations of the Abiye enclave and the interim boundaries, adding that these problems would be solved within two or three days.
"The president and the first vice president will issue in the next few days a decision to reactivate the partnership," Biong said.
On the return of the SPLM ministers to the central government, Biong said "we want that to be done in an official ceremony under the supervision of the president and the vice presidents to show the spirit of the agreement," referring to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by al-Bashir’s government and the SPLM in2005.
In a meeting on Thursday, the Sudanese government and the SPLM reached agreements on a demilitarization of oilfields and cities as well as redeployments of the troops of the two sides in southern Sudan.
The two sides agreed that these steps would be completed by Jan.9, 2008, the third anniversary of the CPA signing, which is aimed to end the 21-year conflict between the them.
Luka Biong, minister of presidency in the southern Sudan government, made the announcement following a meeting between Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and First Vice President and Chairman of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit who represents the south.
This was the third meeting between al-Bashir and Mayardit since the latter took a decision on Oct. 11 to withhold his movement’s participation in the central government in Khartoum, causing the most serious political crisis in more than two years.
Biong told the official SUNA news agency that al-Bashir and Mayardit had agreed to set up a technical committee to map out decisions regarding with the census, the demarcation of the permanent boundaries between northern and southern Sudan as well as the national unity.
He said that the two sides had ironed out all the differences except "simple problems" on the situations of the Abiye enclave and the interim boundaries, adding that these problems would be solved within two or three days.
"The president and the first vice president will issue in the next few days a decision to reactivate the partnership," Biong said.
On the return of the SPLM ministers to the central government, Biong said "we want that to be done in an official ceremony under the supervision of the president and the vice presidents to show the spirit of the agreement," referring to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by al-Bashir’s government and the SPLM in2005.
In a meeting on Thursday, the Sudanese government and the SPLM reached agreements on a demilitarization of oilfields and cities as well as redeployments of the troops of the two sides in southern Sudan.
The two sides agreed that these steps would be completed by Jan.9, 2008, the third anniversary of the CPA signing, which is aimed to end the 21-year conflict between the them.
Friday, November 2, 2007
All of South Sudan is UN Security Phase-III.
UNDSS SUDAN (SOUTHERN SECTOR)
SOUTH SUDAN HUMANITARIAN SECURITY REPORT #253
PERIOD COVERING FROM 31 October 07 (1600 HRS) TO 01 November 07 (1600 HRS)
All of South Sudan is UN Security Phase-III.
MOSS and MORSS compliance are mandatory for all staff of the UN
Agencies, Programs, Funds and DPKO.
No Changes in Last 24 Hours.
Juba Security Advisory:
1. The current 2359 - 0500 hours movement restriction for all staff
in Juba was reviewed by the DDO in consultation with the South Sudan SMT
and it was decided in the interests of staff safety and security that the
restriction would, until further notice, be maintained as a precautionary
measure. Heads of UN Agencies, Programmes, Funds, Sections and INGO's
holding LOU's have undertaken to enforce the above restriction to assist
with compliance. All stakeholders are encouraged to seriously consider the
above restriction when planning work and or social events in Juba.
2. Staff should, where practical, avoid areas in Juba during
evening hours which have host government or other armed people securing
buildings and installations. Such as ministerial and senior officers /
officials accommodation, particularly in the Juba “first class area” near
the UNDP accommodation/ office and OCHA office. Staff when driving close to
these locations should use main roads only. This is to assist in preventing
further incidents of staff being stopped at such locations/ checkpoints.
Staff involved in such incidents should comply with the correct procedures
described in the “Basic / Advanced security in the field” CD ROM and the
security training workshop.
RECENT CHANGES.
The AT land mine found on Magwe- Parajok road was cleared by UNMAS. The
road is now “GO” however, all staff are advised to pay attention to
migrating land mines because of the rain.
1. JUBA has been reduced to security level 1 “Stable” effective 04 Oct.
07.
2. Bor, Jonglei state, has been reduced to security level 2 “Permissive”
effective 04 Oct. 07
3. Lankien, Jonglie State, was reduced to security level 2 effective 2
October 07, after a security assessment by UN security.
4. PHOM EL ZARAF in Jonglei was reassessed by UN security and reduced to
security level 2 permissive, effective 22 September 07.
5. Thiet (Warrab) has been reduced to Security level 2 effective 1800
hrs on 12 Sep 07 in view of improved situation in overall.
6. Given concerns pertaining to insecurity resulting from inter-tribal
tension and OAG presence in the area, Road Juba Bridge (Jada) –
Mongala – Gemeiza – Malek and the road Torit – Lafon - Mongala will
still be at Level 3, clearance for movement granted exceptionally and
armed escort required.
7. Road stretch between Jebel Takaninyan - Alimorok Junction (South of
Kapoeta enroute to Chukudum) remains at UN Security Level 3 in view
of the inter-tribal situation in the area, armed escorts required.
Note that in addition to normal clearance, clearance must also be
sought through ASC Kapoeta who will consult with local authorities in
regard to the situation in the affected area.
URGENT SECURITY ADVISORIES / INFORMATION.
1. JUBA: Situation in Juba remains stable. However, militia to the
East of Juba and violent criminals inside Juba remain a threat to staff
and operations. Staff are reminded that movement to the East and South
of Juba can be conducted only with armed escort. The UN curfew between
midnight and 0500 hrs must be observed by all UN staff . All UN Staff to
be at their residences by 2330hrs. Only drivers are to be on the road
between 2330hrs and midnight after dropping off the rest of the staff
and while enroute to their residences.
2. JUBA Accommodation Situation and Security Considerations. The
only recognized secure accommodations for UN Agencies, Programmes, Funds
and DPKO civilian staff in Juba are as follows: UNDP Compounds 1 and 2,
UN guest houses, Afex (OCHA) Camp, Eric De Mul Village, MORSS compliant
private residences, and other locations approved by UNDSS. Given
shortages and the problematic nature of some commercial camps and hotels
that in cases continue to be used for overflow purposes, the DDO on
advice of the SMT recently has directed that it is the responsibility of
the forwarding agency, organization or section, and not the individual
to ensure that any staff member ravelling to Juba on mission has
obtained secure accommodation before ravelling. In the event that
secure accommodation in not available, the staff member(s) should not
travel to Juba. UNMIS in particular are establishing more accommodation
infrastructure but this is only expected to clear existing waiting lists
by the end of March 2007.
3. LRA. Given renewal of the cessation of hostilities agreement
now in force between the LRA and UPDF, continuing assurances from the
senior LRA leadership with regard to the security of humanitarian space,
decrease in related LRA activity and after careful review and
consultation, the DDO has approved that all remaining routes in Western
Equatoria currently set at Level 3 with mandatory Armed Escorts
Requirement be reverted to Level 2, permissive for humanitarian and
developmental operations and not requiring escorts with immediate
effect. SMT also approved reversion of Ezo (WEQ) from Level 3 to Level
2 for similar reasons. However, given potential command and control
issues within the LRA, the implications of the movement of LRA out of
the east to conform to the western assembly area and presence of OAG’s
to the east of the Nile it was decided that present restrictions in
place on the Eastern bank of Nile remain extant and will be reviewed
subsequent to assembly in the West or as required by the DDO on advice
of the SMT. Full adherence to CSMOSS and mandatory armed escort on level
3 roads by all UN Staff and partners advised.
4. UNDSS. There is to be increased monitoring and security visits
undertaken in regard to the following locations to further appreciate
the currently unfolding situation and to validate or to recommend
modifications to the current posture as required; Yambio, Kajo Keji,
Yei, Magwe, Parajok, Labone and Nimule.
5. All are reminded of the need for safe driving, adhering to speed
limits, and taking note of increasing traffic in South Sudan, more so in
the urban areas.
SECURITY LEVELS: LOCATIONS.
--------------|
LEVEL 4 | |
(INSECURE) NO | |
GO | |
----------------------------------------------------------- --------------|
Serial |Location |State |Effective Reason for|
| | | Change |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
| | | |
--------------
LEVEL 3 |
(TRANSITIONAL) |
|
-------------------------------------------- --------------+--------------
Serial |Location |State Effective | |Reason
--------------+---------------+------------- --------------+--------------
1 |Malakal |Upper Nile 28Nov 06 | |Armed tension
| | | |in the area
--------------+---------------+------------- --------------+--------------
2 |Jaman |Upper Nile 12 Mar 07 | |Tension in the
| | | |area.
--------------+---------------+---------------------------+ --------------
3 |Ri Kwangba|WEQ |19 Apr 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation. |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
4 |Sudan Safari|CEQ |25 Jul 07 Inter Tribal|
|Camp | | Tension |
| | | |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
| | | |
--------------
LEVEL 2 |
(PERMISSIVE) |
----------------------------------------------------------- --------------
Serial |Location |State |Effective Reason |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
1 |Thiet |Warrab |12 Sep 07 Improved |
| | | situation and|
| | | recommendation|
| | | by agency and|
| | | local |
| | | authority. |
| | | |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
2 |Phom El Zaraf |Jonglei |22 sept 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
3 |Lankien |Jonglie |2 October 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
4 |BOR |Jonglie |04 Oct 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+-----------------------------+--------------
| | | | |
SECURITY LEVELS: ROADS/ RIVER STRETCHES.
----------+
LEVEL 4 | | |
(INSECURE) NO | | |
GO | | |
| | |
------------------------------ ---------- --------- ----------+ -
Serial |Location State | Effective| Reason | |
--------------+--------------- ---------- --------- ----------- -
| | | | |
----------- -
| |
LEVEL 3 | |
(TRANSITIONAL) | |
Armed es
SOUTH SUDAN HUMANITARIAN SECURITY REPORT #253
PERIOD COVERING FROM 31 October 07 (1600 HRS) TO 01 November 07 (1600 HRS)
All of South Sudan is UN Security Phase-III.
MOSS and MORSS compliance are mandatory for all staff of the UN
Agencies, Programs, Funds and DPKO.
No Changes in Last 24 Hours.
Juba Security Advisory:
1. The current 2359 - 0500 hours movement restriction for all staff
in Juba was reviewed by the DDO in consultation with the South Sudan SMT
and it was decided in the interests of staff safety and security that the
restriction would, until further notice, be maintained as a precautionary
measure. Heads of UN Agencies, Programmes, Funds, Sections and INGO's
holding LOU's have undertaken to enforce the above restriction to assist
with compliance. All stakeholders are encouraged to seriously consider the
above restriction when planning work and or social events in Juba.
2. Staff should, where practical, avoid areas in Juba during
evening hours which have host government or other armed people securing
buildings and installations. Such as ministerial and senior officers /
officials accommodation, particularly in the Juba “first class area” near
the UNDP accommodation/ office and OCHA office. Staff when driving close to
these locations should use main roads only. This is to assist in preventing
further incidents of staff being stopped at such locations/ checkpoints.
Staff involved in such incidents should comply with the correct procedures
described in the “Basic / Advanced security in the field” CD ROM and the
security training workshop.
RECENT CHANGES.
The AT land mine found on Magwe- Parajok road was cleared by UNMAS. The
road is now “GO” however, all staff are advised to pay attention to
migrating land mines because of the rain.
1. JUBA has been reduced to security level 1 “Stable” effective 04 Oct.
07.
2. Bor, Jonglei state, has been reduced to security level 2 “Permissive”
effective 04 Oct. 07
3. Lankien, Jonglie State, was reduced to security level 2 effective 2
October 07, after a security assessment by UN security.
4. PHOM EL ZARAF in Jonglei was reassessed by UN security and reduced to
security level 2 permissive, effective 22 September 07.
5. Thiet (Warrab) has been reduced to Security level 2 effective 1800
hrs on 12 Sep 07 in view of improved situation in overall.
6. Given concerns pertaining to insecurity resulting from inter-tribal
tension and OAG presence in the area, Road Juba Bridge (Jada) –
Mongala – Gemeiza – Malek and the road Torit – Lafon - Mongala will
still be at Level 3, clearance for movement granted exceptionally and
armed escort required.
7. Road stretch between Jebel Takaninyan - Alimorok Junction (South of
Kapoeta enroute to Chukudum) remains at UN Security Level 3 in view
of the inter-tribal situation in the area, armed escorts required.
Note that in addition to normal clearance, clearance must also be
sought through ASC Kapoeta who will consult with local authorities in
regard to the situation in the affected area.
URGENT SECURITY ADVISORIES / INFORMATION.
1. JUBA: Situation in Juba remains stable. However, militia to the
East of Juba and violent criminals inside Juba remain a threat to staff
and operations. Staff are reminded that movement to the East and South
of Juba can be conducted only with armed escort. The UN curfew between
midnight and 0500 hrs must be observed by all UN staff . All UN Staff to
be at their residences by 2330hrs. Only drivers are to be on the road
between 2330hrs and midnight after dropping off the rest of the staff
and while enroute to their residences.
2. JUBA Accommodation Situation and Security Considerations. The
only recognized secure accommodations for UN Agencies, Programmes, Funds
and DPKO civilian staff in Juba are as follows: UNDP Compounds 1 and 2,
UN guest houses, Afex (OCHA) Camp, Eric De Mul Village, MORSS compliant
private residences, and other locations approved by UNDSS. Given
shortages and the problematic nature of some commercial camps and hotels
that in cases continue to be used for overflow purposes, the DDO on
advice of the SMT recently has directed that it is the responsibility of
the forwarding agency, organization or section, and not the individual
to ensure that any staff member ravelling to Juba on mission has
obtained secure accommodation before ravelling. In the event that
secure accommodation in not available, the staff member(s) should not
travel to Juba. UNMIS in particular are establishing more accommodation
infrastructure but this is only expected to clear existing waiting lists
by the end of March 2007.
3. LRA. Given renewal of the cessation of hostilities agreement
now in force between the LRA and UPDF, continuing assurances from the
senior LRA leadership with regard to the security of humanitarian space,
decrease in related LRA activity and after careful review and
consultation, the DDO has approved that all remaining routes in Western
Equatoria currently set at Level 3 with mandatory Armed Escorts
Requirement be reverted to Level 2, permissive for humanitarian and
developmental operations and not requiring escorts with immediate
effect. SMT also approved reversion of Ezo (WEQ) from Level 3 to Level
2 for similar reasons. However, given potential command and control
issues within the LRA, the implications of the movement of LRA out of
the east to conform to the western assembly area and presence of OAG’s
to the east of the Nile it was decided that present restrictions in
place on the Eastern bank of Nile remain extant and will be reviewed
subsequent to assembly in the West or as required by the DDO on advice
of the SMT. Full adherence to CSMOSS and mandatory armed escort on level
3 roads by all UN Staff and partners advised.
4. UNDSS. There is to be increased monitoring and security visits
undertaken in regard to the following locations to further appreciate
the currently unfolding situation and to validate or to recommend
modifications to the current posture as required; Yambio, Kajo Keji,
Yei, Magwe, Parajok, Labone and Nimule.
5. All are reminded of the need for safe driving, adhering to speed
limits, and taking note of increasing traffic in South Sudan, more so in
the urban areas.
SECURITY LEVELS: LOCATIONS.
--------------|
LEVEL 4 | |
(INSECURE) NO | |
GO | |
----------------------------------------------------------- --------------|
Serial |Location |State |Effective Reason for|
| | | Change |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
| | | |
--------------
LEVEL 3 |
(TRANSITIONAL) |
|
-------------------------------------------- --------------+--------------
Serial |Location |State Effective | |Reason
--------------+---------------+------------- --------------+--------------
1 |Malakal |Upper Nile 28Nov 06 | |Armed tension
| | | |in the area
--------------+---------------+------------- --------------+--------------
2 |Jaman |Upper Nile 12 Mar 07 | |Tension in the
| | | |area.
--------------+---------------+---------------------------+ --------------
3 |Ri Kwangba|WEQ |19 Apr 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation. |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
4 |Sudan Safari|CEQ |25 Jul 07 Inter Tribal|
|Camp | | Tension |
| | | |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
| | | |
--------------
LEVEL 2 |
(PERMISSIVE) |
----------------------------------------------------------- --------------
Serial |Location |State |Effective Reason |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
1 |Thiet |Warrab |12 Sep 07 Improved |
| | | situation and|
| | | recommendation|
| | | by agency and|
| | | local |
| | | authority. |
| | | |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
2 |Phom El Zaraf |Jonglei |22 sept 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
3 |Lankien |Jonglie |2 October 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+--------------- --------------
4 |BOR |Jonglie |04 Oct 07 Improved |
| | | security |
| | | situation |
--------------+---------------+------------+-----------------------------+--------------
| | | | |
SECURITY LEVELS: ROADS/ RIVER STRETCHES.
----------+
LEVEL 4 | | |
(INSECURE) NO | | |
GO | | |
| | |
------------------------------ ---------- --------- ----------+ -
Serial |Location State | Effective| Reason | |
--------------+--------------- ---------- --------- ----------- -
| | | | |
----------- -
| |
LEVEL 3 | |
(TRANSITIONAL) | |
Armed es
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
South Sudan NGOs inhibit development through expertrates.
Most of south Sudanese are getting discouraged by the way their government has sat back watching her citizens being mistreated by the so-called "Expatriates."
The Sudanese do all the work that keeps up all these Organizations in their operation but to be remarked upon that the Sudanese are not qualified to run their own affairs. This statement has been inherited from the Arabs and if we do not rid ourselves of it will flow back to our enemy and it will be the song of the day when we claim for our Independence.
I wonder how people would want us to be 'qualified.’ The same World Universities that we go to are where these Quakes also go to. We were even beating these colleagues that are being imposed on us just today. I cannot tolerate this abuse of our professionalism, some people have found our blood so sweet that they suck it like leeches leaving us with nothing – blood lost for self Determination from the Imperialists.
I would also like to ask if our Government is not interested in the Taxes and other ways of raising money, I know of income taxes which is the Major Tax base for the Government. The higher you earn, they higher you pay to the Government. It is our Duty to keep up our Government in terms of this revenue. It's become disgusting if all the High paying Jobs are given to the Foreigners who do not know the needs of our people, whose aim is to wait for the months to end so that they amass this wealth from us.
Why do we watch while the country is being looted by people who do not serve our people? I know of an organization where the So-called Expatriates have pasted themselves with All sorts of allowances called 'Hardship allowances' on top of big Salaries which is three times the salaries paid to the Sudanese counterparts who do all the works while these people sit down looking at the computer screens, faking Reports of what they have not done throughout the months.
I do not know how long it takes to write these reports if the work has been actually been done. I also wonder why people who have been hired to do equal jobs are paid differently, so long as they do the same job regardless of Nationalities; they should be paid equally.
I have often heard people complain that western countries repatriate all the money loaned to Third World countries by sending their expatriates to come and watch over how the money is being spent and then get the big salaries. My question here is what have Kenyans who kept our Refugees suffering stealing what belongs to them donated to us as a south Sudan that they are cheating us like this while we are watching?
How many South Sudanese are idle with no jobs here yet their rightful positions are being occupied by the Wrong people who not only do the right Jobs but steal on top? The Followings Questions Deserve to be asked by our Fellow Sudanese who might be in the same Battle like me:-
1- Why is our Government so Occupied with corruption in the public sector leaving the NGO sector where corruption is ripe too?
2- What are we paying back to the so called Kenyans expatriates that they are left cheating our people while we watch?
3- Who mandated the Kenyans to be singing this song that the South Sudanese are not yet Qualified to run on their own? Is it meant to lull us to sleep while they carry away what is meant to benefit our people?
Where is the Benefit that we are getting from all the cheats they are doing on our soil? Is it not better to give the Sudanese the Money to study with than giving it to the Kenyans who do not do the Jobs, get big salaries and again send the money to Kenya? When are we going to Develop?
4- Are we too inferior that we can not face blunders Kenyans are causing on our Soil? There are so many Economics policies that can be put in place to expel these people or reduce their Numbers, the Educated South Sudanese now are ten times more than the Kenyans who were educated at their time of Independence yet they did not call any Nation to come and bring them far than they have come now.
It becomes Disturbing to me if we have resigned to the Subjugation of the Foreigner like this yet we have some Solutions and Economists at our Disposal which can be put to use to aid us out of the problems. These include the following:-
1- Watching over the recruitment of the Organizations to be focused on the Sudanese .
2- focusing on the payment between the Nationals and the Expatriates on how the pays are administered. It should not be left to NGOS alone- the government should oversee the transparency of this process.
3- Putting in place the Economic policies that will deter the Intruders from making our country their land such as taxing them highly on the income they Get from here.
I do not know what is so good about Kenyans. Who does not know here in Africa and the world over the Corruption that's ripe in Kenya? I wonder whether Kenyans have Bewitched us- Contractors, Employees, and consultants in the South are Kenyans, no wonder that is why Our systems are not working, they want us to be stagnant so that they remain to Benefit from Us.
Are we not the Sudanese whom Kenyans have often harassed in their Country? Why can we put in place competition if we have agreed that we are not Qualified by hiring consultants from Other countries like South Africa other than this Kenya which has been in Sudan for the last twenty years misappropriating resources in this land?
4- Asking all NGOS working for South Sudan to move their Head Offices to Juba other than in Nairobi, this should be done by quickening the land bills so that they either lease, rent or even buy land. Here we have been cheated in many Fronts; Our media houses are not benefiting from the Adverts, our people do not get the information because they advertised on Kenyans papers.
5- Keeping in Control migration to our Country so that it does not become any body's land, it has owners.
Who among us south Sudanese who have been in Kenya have not been through the experience of the Kitu Kidoko- 'something small' saga that would swindle all the little money you could have only to be returned if you could not afford the last police post.
It is prudent to keep check at our borders and even deny some people entry to our land- it is a right that we should also be proud of. We should learn from how others protect their rights - look at The Area Code of Uganda we borrowed for a while, how heavily we paid taxes for it and the noise the Ugandan made in regards to that.
6- Checking what types of Positions are occupied by Nationals in all the Organizations- all employees of Some NGOS are Foreigners and they do this without remorse- Employment is one of the ways through which the Government makes itself acceptable to the people by creating Jobs for the Citizens.
I hope some of these Suggestions will serve as change of Status Quo to the recruitment process in the NGOS sector which is supposed to benefit our People in terms of both Employment and direct Delivery of services which is not happening and I do not see why Our Government can not put it to Check because:-
1- Every time Donors return Money which is meant for our People Because the Project is not implemented because the so-called Expatriates just sit in the self created Offices doing nothing not meeting the Deadline the Donors set.
2-the So called Expatriates do not know what our people need their interest is money yet our people yearn in Suffering to get the service and they are being given what is not a priority to them.
3-the Human envy is what I have also seen, other Expatriates say, why all these good things for the Sudanese after all it will make them better to serve themselves letting us go hence loose our bread, so sabotage is here ripe. I do not see some one who will ever open the eye of a blind man whom he devours while sharing the little bread..
Please regulate our systems. It would be wise of if the Government will be the one to call the people it needs from Out than any self proclaimed Experts whose Qualification is in doubt. In that way we shall always know what we want and in what Quantity and quality. If not these people will cheat us up to the last minute when we may wake up.
My advice to our fellow southerners is, this is an aggression and some of us lean towards these people unknowingly. Please assure any cheat in your Organization where you are at the lower Cadres that the posts belong to you. Do not let yourselves be used to meet the objectives of some unscrupulous people who came here to make money at the expense of our people.
The Sudanese do all the work that keeps up all these Organizations in their operation but to be remarked upon that the Sudanese are not qualified to run their own affairs. This statement has been inherited from the Arabs and if we do not rid ourselves of it will flow back to our enemy and it will be the song of the day when we claim for our Independence.
I wonder how people would want us to be 'qualified.’ The same World Universities that we go to are where these Quakes also go to. We were even beating these colleagues that are being imposed on us just today. I cannot tolerate this abuse of our professionalism, some people have found our blood so sweet that they suck it like leeches leaving us with nothing – blood lost for self Determination from the Imperialists.
I would also like to ask if our Government is not interested in the Taxes and other ways of raising money, I know of income taxes which is the Major Tax base for the Government. The higher you earn, they higher you pay to the Government. It is our Duty to keep up our Government in terms of this revenue. It's become disgusting if all the High paying Jobs are given to the Foreigners who do not know the needs of our people, whose aim is to wait for the months to end so that they amass this wealth from us.
Why do we watch while the country is being looted by people who do not serve our people? I know of an organization where the So-called Expatriates have pasted themselves with All sorts of allowances called 'Hardship allowances' on top of big Salaries which is three times the salaries paid to the Sudanese counterparts who do all the works while these people sit down looking at the computer screens, faking Reports of what they have not done throughout the months.
I do not know how long it takes to write these reports if the work has been actually been done. I also wonder why people who have been hired to do equal jobs are paid differently, so long as they do the same job regardless of Nationalities; they should be paid equally.
I have often heard people complain that western countries repatriate all the money loaned to Third World countries by sending their expatriates to come and watch over how the money is being spent and then get the big salaries. My question here is what have Kenyans who kept our Refugees suffering stealing what belongs to them donated to us as a south Sudan that they are cheating us like this while we are watching?
How many South Sudanese are idle with no jobs here yet their rightful positions are being occupied by the Wrong people who not only do the right Jobs but steal on top? The Followings Questions Deserve to be asked by our Fellow Sudanese who might be in the same Battle like me:-
1- Why is our Government so Occupied with corruption in the public sector leaving the NGO sector where corruption is ripe too?
2- What are we paying back to the so called Kenyans expatriates that they are left cheating our people while we watch?
3- Who mandated the Kenyans to be singing this song that the South Sudanese are not yet Qualified to run on their own? Is it meant to lull us to sleep while they carry away what is meant to benefit our people?
Where is the Benefit that we are getting from all the cheats they are doing on our soil? Is it not better to give the Sudanese the Money to study with than giving it to the Kenyans who do not do the Jobs, get big salaries and again send the money to Kenya? When are we going to Develop?
4- Are we too inferior that we can not face blunders Kenyans are causing on our Soil? There are so many Economics policies that can be put in place to expel these people or reduce their Numbers, the Educated South Sudanese now are ten times more than the Kenyans who were educated at their time of Independence yet they did not call any Nation to come and bring them far than they have come now.
It becomes Disturbing to me if we have resigned to the Subjugation of the Foreigner like this yet we have some Solutions and Economists at our Disposal which can be put to use to aid us out of the problems. These include the following:-
1- Watching over the recruitment of the Organizations to be focused on the Sudanese .
2- focusing on the payment between the Nationals and the Expatriates on how the pays are administered. It should not be left to NGOS alone- the government should oversee the transparency of this process.
3- Putting in place the Economic policies that will deter the Intruders from making our country their land such as taxing them highly on the income they Get from here.
I do not know what is so good about Kenyans. Who does not know here in Africa and the world over the Corruption that's ripe in Kenya? I wonder whether Kenyans have Bewitched us- Contractors, Employees, and consultants in the South are Kenyans, no wonder that is why Our systems are not working, they want us to be stagnant so that they remain to Benefit from Us.
Are we not the Sudanese whom Kenyans have often harassed in their Country? Why can we put in place competition if we have agreed that we are not Qualified by hiring consultants from Other countries like South Africa other than this Kenya which has been in Sudan for the last twenty years misappropriating resources in this land?
4- Asking all NGOS working for South Sudan to move their Head Offices to Juba other than in Nairobi, this should be done by quickening the land bills so that they either lease, rent or even buy land. Here we have been cheated in many Fronts; Our media houses are not benefiting from the Adverts, our people do not get the information because they advertised on Kenyans papers.
5- Keeping in Control migration to our Country so that it does not become any body's land, it has owners.
Who among us south Sudanese who have been in Kenya have not been through the experience of the Kitu Kidoko- 'something small' saga that would swindle all the little money you could have only to be returned if you could not afford the last police post.
It is prudent to keep check at our borders and even deny some people entry to our land- it is a right that we should also be proud of. We should learn from how others protect their rights - look at The Area Code of Uganda we borrowed for a while, how heavily we paid taxes for it and the noise the Ugandan made in regards to that.
6- Checking what types of Positions are occupied by Nationals in all the Organizations- all employees of Some NGOS are Foreigners and they do this without remorse- Employment is one of the ways through which the Government makes itself acceptable to the people by creating Jobs for the Citizens.
I hope some of these Suggestions will serve as change of Status Quo to the recruitment process in the NGOS sector which is supposed to benefit our People in terms of both Employment and direct Delivery of services which is not happening and I do not see why Our Government can not put it to Check because:-
1- Every time Donors return Money which is meant for our People Because the Project is not implemented because the so-called Expatriates just sit in the self created Offices doing nothing not meeting the Deadline the Donors set.
2-the So called Expatriates do not know what our people need their interest is money yet our people yearn in Suffering to get the service and they are being given what is not a priority to them.
3-the Human envy is what I have also seen, other Expatriates say, why all these good things for the Sudanese after all it will make them better to serve themselves letting us go hence loose our bread, so sabotage is here ripe. I do not see some one who will ever open the eye of a blind man whom he devours while sharing the little bread..
Please regulate our systems. It would be wise of if the Government will be the one to call the people it needs from Out than any self proclaimed Experts whose Qualification is in doubt. In that way we shall always know what we want and in what Quantity and quality. If not these people will cheat us up to the last minute when we may wake up.
My advice to our fellow southerners is, this is an aggression and some of us lean towards these people unknowingly. Please assure any cheat in your Organization where you are at the lower Cadres that the posts belong to you. Do not let yourselves be used to meet the objectives of some unscrupulous people who came here to make money at the expense of our people.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sudan Military troops redeployed
30 October 2007 – (Nairobi, Kenya) – All SPLA forces are south of the January 1st, 1956 border. This statement from the chairman of the Southern Sudan Peace Commission and the newly-appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Mr. James Kok.
In an exclusive interview with Sudan Radio Service last week in Nairobi, Mr. Kok said that other than those attached to Joint Integrated Units, no SPLA soldier remains north of the 1956 border, in accordance with the CPA. Mr. Kok was responding to allegations leveled by National Congress Party Deputy Nafie Ali Nafie on October 11th that only 6% of SPLA soldiers had withdrawn from the north.
[James Kok]: “The SPLA soldiers have moved from all the areas that they are not supposed to be, and they were brought to the south of the 1956 border. And if you need witnesses, they can go and witness. And the SAF has withdrawn from some parts of the areas in the south but not all the areas. According to the CPA, they were supposed to be out since the 9th of January 2007. They are still in Unity state, Upper Nile state and Western Bahr el Ghazal state and this is against the CPA.”
He said that the SAF are concentrated in the oil-rich areas, where only Joint Integrated Units are supposed to operate.
Section three of the security arrangements protocol of the CPA says that other than those in the JIU’s, all SAF troops were to be redeployed north of the 1956 border and SPLA troops south of that border as of January 2007.
In other news, Mr. Kok denied rumors that the SPLM is behind the decision by some of Darfur’s anti-government groups not to attend the peace talks in Libya. He says the SPLM’s goal in the Darfur peace talks was to unite the anti-government groups so that they would all participate and speak with one voice, saying “a home that is divided cannot succeed.” He said that in the workshops with the anti-government groups in Juba, the SPLM encouraged the groups to attend the peace talks in Libya.
[James Kok]: “I have gone to France twice to persuade Abdul Wahid al-Nur to come and join his brothers so that they can agree with one voice to attend the peace talks and bring peace to Darfur. Then how can we at the same time tell them not to attend, unless it is the enemies of SPLA speaking like that?”
Abdul Wahid al-Nur is the leader of the largest Sudan Liberation Movement faction that has refused to attend the talks in Libya.
Mr. Kok added that although the SPLM has recalled its senior officials from the Government of National Unity, it is still “working hard” to see that there is peace in the whole of Sudan, including Darfur.
Census Updates
30 October 2007 – (Juba) – If people are not counted, the resources allocated to them by government may be too small. That warning from Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar, speaking in Juba on Saturday during the publicity launch of the nationwide census to be conducted in February.
Speaking to a crowd, Dr. Machar said that the census is important because it will be the basis for all governments’ distribution of resources to Sudan’s regions and people.
[Dr. Machar]: “If we are not counted, the resources that the government allocates will be too small for us. We have different levels of government. There is the central government in Khartoum; it has resources it divides to the people of Sudan and they only do this by numbers. And if the Government of Southern Sudan wants to allocate resources, then it will be done with the consideration of numbers and even the state government will also do the same, based on the numbers of the people.”
Dr. Machar reminded people to be in Sudan by the night of February first to second in order to be eligible for counting in the census.
UNJLC NORTH-SOUTH CONVOY
UNJLC is planning to resume light vehicle convoys from Khartoum to Juba,
similar to the one from last June. The 1st convoy is tentatively scheduled
to leave on November 3, 2007 from Khartoum. It will be lead by Nicolas
Daher (UNJLC Senior Logistician) and will take approximately 6 to 7 days
depending on the convoy route and unexpected delays.
The maximum number of 10 vehicles (Land Cruisers, Patrols, Land Rovers,
etc.) allowed on each convoy is. We would like a equitable mix of UN and
INGO vehicles. No trucks or buses will be permitted during the convoy, not even 3TN light trucks.
The routing will be as follow:
- Day 1: Khartoum to El-Obeid
- Day 2: El-Obeid to Keilak via Dilling (perhaps staying in Abyei)
- Day 3: Keilak (Abyei) to Aweil via Meiram
- Day 4: Aweil to Wau
- Day 5: Wau to Rumbek
- Day 6: Rumbek to Juba via Mundri if river is low and light
vehicles are able to pass, if not - detour to Yei
- Day 7: Yei to Juba
If you are interested in sending a vehicle down to Juba from Khartoum then this is the best opportunity for you.
similar to the one from last June. The 1st convoy is tentatively scheduled
to leave on November 3, 2007 from Khartoum. It will be lead by Nicolas
Daher (UNJLC Senior Logistician) and will take approximately 6 to 7 days
depending on the convoy route and unexpected delays.
The maximum number of 10 vehicles (Land Cruisers, Patrols, Land Rovers,
etc.) allowed on each convoy is. We would like a equitable mix of UN and
INGO vehicles. No trucks or buses will be permitted during the convoy, not even 3TN light trucks.
The routing will be as follow:
- Day 1: Khartoum to El-Obeid
- Day 2: El-Obeid to Keilak via Dilling (perhaps staying in Abyei)
- Day 3: Keilak (Abyei) to Aweil via Meiram
- Day 4: Aweil to Wau
- Day 5: Wau to Rumbek
- Day 6: Rumbek to Juba via Mundri if river is low and light
vehicles are able to pass, if not - detour to Yei
- Day 7: Yei to Juba
If you are interested in sending a vehicle down to Juba from Khartoum then this is the best opportunity for you.
South Sudan Missed EAC
OIL-RICH South Sudan has requested to join the East African Community (EAC) as businesspersons from the block increasingly target booming trade in the semi-autonomous region.
However EAC turned down the request saying only South Sudan was not a sovereign State as it is part of the Sudan.
Uganda's State Minister for Trade Nelson Wambuzi Gagawala told journalists of the application by the Government of South Sudan (GOSS).
EAC, which brings together Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Rwanda, is among Africa's strongest regional groupings with a combined market of 120 million people.
"Southern Sudan has applied to join the EAC. In fact also Khartoum wants to join," Gagawala said on Friday.
A Ugandan senior official in charge of East Africa and Great Lakes Region affairs corroborated the minister's position.
He said: "They (GOSS) actually applied during the April 2007 summit.
However, the Heads of State advised South Sudan to apply when they are a sovereign state (in case they seceded after a referendum)," Kagamba said.
With a population of about 14 million people, South Sudan is seeking to secede from the Arab-north in a bid to consolidate black-Christian leadership.
The secession will be decided in the forthcoming referendum.
Uganda's Minister for Regional Cooperation, Isaac Musumba, had earlier voiced a similar position to the press. "We cannot deal with them since South Sudan is not yet a sovereign state.
It is still part of Sudan," Musumba said.
GOSS's interest in EAC comes at a time when thousands of East African traders are flocking the southern Sudan market that is reported to have extensive unexploited resources.
"I think they want to join the bloc because they mainly trade with East Africa.
I do not think there is any other reason. You know they fetch a biggest percentage of their goods through Mombassa.
Therefore they need to join the Community so that taxes are lifted," Kagamba said.
To join the EAC, a country must be a neighbour of the bloc, have a common market and have a democratically elected government.
According to Musumba, South Sudan has drafted an investment policy to enrich trade with its neighbours.
The investment plan is worth $32 million which they are yet to raise.
A number of traders especially Kenyans and Ugandans from around the region have asserted themselves on the South Sudan market especially in petty trade.
"Our greatest regional market is Southern Sudan. Our traders are sending more goods to southern Sudan, which is a food basket for the entire country.
Southern Sudan has immense potential. It has a huge land mass.
The land is so fertile and very beautiful. For any energetic people, it is the way to go," Gagawala said.
However, despite being an attractive market for East Africa, southern Sudan remains less accessible. Roads are in a pitiable state and there are few accommodation facilities, which are charged at exorbitant prices.
But Musumba, who about two weeks ago had led a Ugandan ministerial delegation to Southern Sudan on a bilateral mission, said they had agreed with GOSS leadership on joint transport routes including a railway line that will run from Juba through northern Uganda to Mombassa.
Gagawala, Uganda's Trade Minister also said GOSS intends to erect an oil pipeline to Uganda.
A few months ago the GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation, Dr. Benjamin Barnaba Marial said that in future they would build a refinery at the border with Uganda and Kenya.
However EAC turned down the request saying only South Sudan was not a sovereign State as it is part of the Sudan.
Uganda's State Minister for Trade Nelson Wambuzi Gagawala told journalists of the application by the Government of South Sudan (GOSS).
EAC, which brings together Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Rwanda, is among Africa's strongest regional groupings with a combined market of 120 million people.
"Southern Sudan has applied to join the EAC. In fact also Khartoum wants to join," Gagawala said on Friday.
A Ugandan senior official in charge of East Africa and Great Lakes Region affairs corroborated the minister's position.
He said: "They (GOSS) actually applied during the April 2007 summit.
However, the Heads of State advised South Sudan to apply when they are a sovereign state (in case they seceded after a referendum)," Kagamba said.
With a population of about 14 million people, South Sudan is seeking to secede from the Arab-north in a bid to consolidate black-Christian leadership.
The secession will be decided in the forthcoming referendum.
Uganda's Minister for Regional Cooperation, Isaac Musumba, had earlier voiced a similar position to the press. "We cannot deal with them since South Sudan is not yet a sovereign state.
It is still part of Sudan," Musumba said.
GOSS's interest in EAC comes at a time when thousands of East African traders are flocking the southern Sudan market that is reported to have extensive unexploited resources.
"I think they want to join the bloc because they mainly trade with East Africa.
I do not think there is any other reason. You know they fetch a biggest percentage of their goods through Mombassa.
Therefore they need to join the Community so that taxes are lifted," Kagamba said.
To join the EAC, a country must be a neighbour of the bloc, have a common market and have a democratically elected government.
According to Musumba, South Sudan has drafted an investment policy to enrich trade with its neighbours.
The investment plan is worth $32 million which they are yet to raise.
A number of traders especially Kenyans and Ugandans from around the region have asserted themselves on the South Sudan market especially in petty trade.
"Our greatest regional market is Southern Sudan. Our traders are sending more goods to southern Sudan, which is a food basket for the entire country.
Southern Sudan has immense potential. It has a huge land mass.
The land is so fertile and very beautiful. For any energetic people, it is the way to go," Gagawala said.
However, despite being an attractive market for East Africa, southern Sudan remains less accessible. Roads are in a pitiable state and there are few accommodation facilities, which are charged at exorbitant prices.
But Musumba, who about two weeks ago had led a Ugandan ministerial delegation to Southern Sudan on a bilateral mission, said they had agreed with GOSS leadership on joint transport routes including a railway line that will run from Juba through northern Uganda to Mombassa.
Gagawala, Uganda's Trade Minister also said GOSS intends to erect an oil pipeline to Uganda.
A few months ago the GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation, Dr. Benjamin Barnaba Marial said that in future they would build a refinery at the border with Uganda and Kenya.
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