SEPNet Sudan Emancipation Preservation Network The indigenous peoples of these regions along the historic northsouth borderidentify themselves as African and have long been allied militarily, http://www.sepnet.org/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=261&blogId=1
Sudan And The Peace Agreement - EgyptSearch Forums The agreement formally ends africa s longest running civil war a war that hascost the lives of The beja people in northeastern Sudan are an example. http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/002254.html
Extractions: Registered: Jul 2004 posted 19 June 2005 09:01 AM one thing i have to say the arabs were not the majority in the north even 100 years ago.arabs never control all of the north it retaken by the funj(confedation of shilluks and southern nubians and some other africans) and new later nubian kingdoms.it was the brits who gave the north to the arabs.the north then expanded to the central part of sudan where most nubians lived and where the southern nubia is at.but any read below. April 15, 2005 The opinions expressed in the following article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for Global Engagement. A "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" was signed on 9 January 2005 between the southern based Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM), led by John Garang, and the northern based Government of Sudan (GoS), led by President Omar al-Bashir, opening a new chapter for Sudan. The agreement formally ends Africa's longest running civil war a war that has cost the lives of 1.5 million people and displaced another four million. In a country that has known only 11 years of peace and 38 years of war since its independence in 1956, there is a renewed spirit of optimism in the air. It raises the question, however, of whether the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will really be comprehensive enough to bring about a lasting peace.
Africanfront.com (AUF) or native language is one of thousands of languages indigenous to africa.Tunisia, with 9.1 million people, is the only african state with a true http://www.africanfront.com/2004nn.php
Extractions: Darfur (Arabic, meaning "home of the Fur") is a region of the far western Sudan, bordering the Central African Republic and Chad. It is divided into three federal states within Sudan, Gharb Darfur, Janub Darfur, and Shamal Darfur. All of Darfur's communities are Africans regardless of their historic, economic, and ethnic relations. Many so called Arabs are not ethnic-Arab as the term might be understood outside Africa. The so-called Arabs in most of Africa are not ethnic Arabs, and although they speak Arabic, their "mother-tongue" or native language is one of thousands of languages indigenous to Africa. Tunisia, with 9.1 million people, is the only African state with a true (geneological) ethnic African-Arab majority (as opposed to Arabic-speaking, or Arabized African). But only 10% of Tunisians qualify as, or describe themselves as "pure" (geneologically predominantly) Arab, the rest being of Amazigh-Arab origin, or Jewish, French, Greeks, Italians, and Amazigh without Arab ancestry. And the Tunisian Arabs didn't get there by invading (the initial invasions were defeated by Al Kahena, queen of the Amazhig), they were invited and resettled there later by Africans. Moreover, the term Arab itself has a disputed meaning. Ibn Khaldun, perhaps the greatest Tunisian scholar in history, uses the name Arab to mean "people of bedouin origin", and bedouin in a sense meaning "nomad" of Yemeni and Saudi origin. But other scholars think that Arab is in fact a social classification rather than a geneological classification.
Extractions: Attached to the Development Studies and Research Institute at the University of Khartoum Published in African Security Review Vol 13 No 2, 2004 Introduction As the following cases from Eastern Sudan show, conflict itself, when it occurs, and its containment and settlement are seen as a collective responsibility, drawing the participation of leaders and members of the community participate. Most importantly, the resolution of conflict may take the form of forgiveness and reconciliation instead of punishment. This paper deals with the conflict prevention, management and resolution mechanisms the Beja have adopted to resolve different forms of disputes and conflicts. The main thrust of the argument is that, despite socio-economic and political changes, traditional conflict prevention, management and resolution mechanisms among the Beja peoples of eastern Sudan have not only shown resilience but have also proved more effective than those provided by the modern state. In the first section a brief background to the Beja and their region is given, followed by a discussion of the Rashaida-Hadandawa conflict and how this was dealt with using traditional and government conflict management mechanisms. The third section is devoted to inter-Beja conflicts, their most common causes and the manner in which they are dealt with using indigenous mechanisms. In turn, the fourth section is devoted to Beja intra-tribal conflicts and the mechanisms used to deal with them. In all instances there is a brief description of the case or procedure, followed by a brief analysis. Finally a number of conclusions are drawn and recommendations made.
SUDAN MIRROR - For Truth And Justice Parts of eastern Sudan, specifically the beja areas of the Red Sea Hills and Alex de Waal is a director of Justice africa and author of lslamism and Its http://www.sudanmirror.com/archives/vol2_issue15/editorial/sudan.asp
Extractions: NATIONAL NEWS REGIONAL NEWS LEISURE / HUMOUR ... CONTACT US EDITORIALS / OPINION Sudan facing another tragedy in the East President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya (second left) and president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (center) endorse the Sudaneese peace agreement in january this year By Alex de Wall Could eastern Sudan explode into conflict, massacre and famine, bringing disaster down on millions more Sudanese and jeopardising the hard-won gains of the Naivasha Agreement?
The Sudan Mirror On The Web As the Sudanese Government and the main rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army It notes that indigenous groups such as the beja Congress, http://www.sudanmirror.com/archives/vol1-issue10/opn-rdmap.html
Extractions: Bitter foes, the Government and the SPLM/A are tentatively reaching agreement on hitherto inadmissible and non-negotiable topics, and hopes are high that a comprehensive peace deal will finally put an end to a continuous and devastating 20-year civil war, during which about 2 million people have lost their lives, and millions more their homes, livelihoods and even their country.
Extractions: (Note: These are unedited and uncorrected transcripts) Chairman, thank you for this opportunity to give evidence on religious freedom in Sudan. One cannot calibrate human suffering: one person dying for their faith is one too many. But in the cruel calculus of man's inhumanity to man, Sudan is probably the nation with the highest toll of persecution in the world today. In the jihad (holy war) waged by the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime which took power by military coup in 1989 from the democratically elected coalition government, over 2 million have died from war-related causes and over 5 million have been displaced. I will briefly offer: my credentials and those of the organization with which I work, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW); and details of visits to Sudan on which my evidence is based;
Culture And Power 2004 - Beja, November 24 - Portugal CONFERENCE beja , Portugal, November 24 27, 2004 Representation /commodification of the past/ places, peoples and cultures http://www.mundiconvenius.pt/2004/culture/sessions.htm
Extractions: In recent years, exhibitions, publications and on the whole a growing interest in photography and visual culture have brought humanist photography to the focus of renewed theoretical and critical attention. In connection with the exhibition of photographs by an international artist being organised for the 2nd International Language, Communication, Culture Conference, this session welcomes 20-minute papers which contribute new approaches to and perceptions of, among other topics,
Extractions: African American Black Blood Donor Emergency COUNTRY RACIAL and/or ETHNIC ANALYSIS of PEOPLE GROUPS Afghanistan Pashtun 38%, Tajik 25%, Uzbek 6%, Hazara 19%, minor ethnic groups (Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) Albania Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2%: Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Algeria Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% Andorra Spanish 61%, Andorran 30%, French 6%, other 3% Angola Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, Mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% Antigua black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian (see Barbuda) Argentina European 97% (mostly of Spanish and Italian descent), 3% other (mostly Indian or Mestizo) Armenia Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989) Note: as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia Australia Caucasian 95%, Asian 4%, aboriginal (353,000) and other 1%
Sudan: What "Comprehensive" Peace Really Requires (Print Version) The agreement formally ends africa s longest running civil war a war that has cost The BC was founded in 1960 to address the needs of the beja people, http://www.globalengagement.org/issues/2005/04/sudan-p.htm
Extractions: April 15, 2005 The opinions expressed in the following article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute for Global Engagement. A "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" was signed on 9 January 2005 between the southern based Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM), led by John Garang, and the northern based Government of Sudan (GoS), led by President Omar al-Bashir, opening a new chapter for Sudan. The agreement formally ends Africa's longest running civil war a war that has cost the lives of 1.5 million people and displaced another four million. In a country that has known only 11 years of peace and 38 years of war since its independence in 1956, there is a renewed spirit of optimism in the air. It raises the question, however, of whether the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will really be comprehensive enough to bring about a lasting peace. The CPA makes provisions concerning a wide variety of issues between the GoS and the SPLM, including the integration of armed forces, the sharing of oil wealth, the sharing of administrative positions, and the status of Shari'a in the south. The Agreement also grants the south autonomy for six years before a referendum vote will be held to determine if the south will secede. Unfortunately, this formula is more a time bomb than a comprehensive peace, for there are many stakeholders in Sudan's future other than the GoS and SPLM. A genuinely lasting peace must be built on a new inclusive nationalism than includes Sudan's full richness of diversity.
The Head Heeb: Sudan Is A Mess particularly by the indigenous beja people who are Muslims but not Arabs - and Ash-Sharqi is the home of the beja people (the Fuzzy Wuzzies of http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/023598.html
Extractions: « Good News from Palestine, part 7 Main Inheriting a headache » With the southern Sudan peace process moving in fits and starts and the western Darfur conflict turning into a major human rights calamity , observers are now warning that fighting may also break out in the eastern ash-Sharqi province. Ash-Sharqi is the home of the Beja people (the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" of Kipling fame) who, like the inhabitants of Darfur, are ethnically distinct from Sudan's Arab population. A rebel movement exists among the Beja which has "hitherto been relatively quiet" but has "threatened to remobilise unless they are included in the peace process:" Observers warn of simmering conflict in the eastern region, particularly by the indigenous Beja people - who are Muslims but not Arabs - and whose grievances are essentially the same as those faced by the Darfur rebels. The Beja say there has never been any sign of the government in their area - basics such as education and medical care have been completely overlooked. The various groups making up the Beja are represented by the Beja Congress which is a member of the Asmara-based Sudan opposition grouping, the
Reporting Canada All africa, Full Story religious scholars), while North Upi has created anarbitration body composed of Muslims, Christians, and indigenous people. http://www.crnetwork.ca/reportingcanada/monthlynews.asp?Month=1&Year=2005
AIDS: No One Mentions The Cause Of Death Will share Gods love and plan with african young people wanting answers in a job while also planting churches among the beja of northern africa. http://archives.tconline.org/stories/july01/go.html
Oxfam the margins indigenous peoples; young Roma from Europe; those of African descent Two partner representatives from the Dalit and indigenous peoples http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/links/0402edit.htm
Extractions: choose_stylesheet("/stylesheets/css_whatwedo") Other sites Oxfam International Generation Why Big Noise Music Control Arms Cool Planet for teachers Make Trade Fair Oxfam Publishing Oxfam Unwrapped UK Poverty Programme what we do Emergencies Where we work Issues we work on Trade ... Fair Trade Links - April 2002 Editorial Women's literacy class teachers preparing lessons, Belgigo settlement, North Tokar, Sudan. Photo by Sarah Errington/ Oxfam All over the world, the intersection between poverty, discrimination, and gender is glaringly apparent, although the full picture is often blurred by the lack of disaggregated data. To take but one example, more than 250 million people, over half of them women and girls, live in a precarious position shunned because of their caste-ascribed status as 'untouchables or Dalits. In India, 90 per cent of Dalit households have no sanitation; 80 per cent have no electricity. Within these households a high percentage of women no less than 90 per cent are malnourished. More than 100,000 cases of rape, murder, arson and violent attack are reported each year but with few prosecutions. Similar patterns of identity and gender discrimination exist in Nepal, where the national literacy rate is 48 per cent, but declines to only 10 per cent for Dalits, and 3.2 per cent for Dalit women.
Sudan Physical. Sudan Is Located In Northern Africa Bordering The Sudan is africas largest country. Apart from an 11year period of peace, it hasbeen torn by civil 37091000 people; black (52%); Arab (39%); beja (6%) http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/sudan/country-print.html
Extractions: Physical. Sudan is located in Northern Africa bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea. It covers an area slightly less than one-quarter the size of the US. The climate is tropical in the south with an arid desert in the north. The rainy season lasts from April to October. The terrain is generally a flat plain with mountains in the east and west. Natural resources include petroleum, small ore reserves, and hydropower. People. Around 37 million people live in the Sudan. Arabic is the official language with diverse dialects. The population is black (52%) Arab (39%) and Beja (6%). Religious practices are mainly Sunni Muslim in the north (70%) indigenous beliefs (25%) Christian (5% mostly in the south and Khartoum). Government. Sudan is Africas largest country. Apart from an 11-year period of peace, it has been torn by civil war since its independence in 1956. The strife is mainly between the mostly Muslim north and the animist and Christian south. Sudans size, great ethnic and religious diversity make building a sense of national unity difficult. The current regime rules through massive repression and genocide. Current president, Omar Bashir was reelected in 2001 for 5 years, but the elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties. The Machakos Protocol of July 2002, signed by both the government and the two largest southern rebel groups, provides for a referendum on self-determination in the south after a 6-year interval. Despite signing, the Muslim-led Sudanese government has continued to attack southern Christian groups. There is evidence of widespread enslavement of blacks in the south. The Sudanese government has practiced one of the largest cases of genocide since Rwanda with thousands killed in 2004. A peace agreement was signed on January 9, 2005.
IK Monitor 4(3) Article In practice, however, many people continue to make use of the indigenous Soil and water conservation among settling beja nomads in eastern Sudan. http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/4-3/articles/dijk.html
Extractions: Fieldwork experiences in Sudan and Burkina Faso show that indigenous measures of space and quantity differ from those of local extension workers. This contribution to the discussion argues that what is needed to facilitate the mutual acceptance of indigenous knowledge and scientific/academic knowledge are protocols to check the validity of data before placing them in such highly formalized knowledge contexts as GIS, as well as a new approach to extension techniques. Indigenous knowledge is often seen as the antipode of scientific knowledge. Previous work, which has centred on the complementary nature of knowledge systems (Richards, 1985), approaches to linking them up (Chambers et al., 1991), and studies focusing on their social interfaces (Long, 1989) have occasionally tended to reinforce this notion of differentness. The question of whether indigenous and scientific knowledge can be considered separate entities is currently the subject of renewed debate (cf. Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor 3(3) and 4(1)). We concur with a number of the contributors to these two volumes that differences between these knowledge systems can be discerned. The most important of these are related to how indigenous or scientific knowledge is acquired (lived experience versus formal training), and how that knowledge is used on a day-to-day basis (local versus non-local applications). In both the North and the South, indigenous knowledge is increasingly regarded as a precious resource (Warren, 1991; Buttimer et al., 1991:3-9). However, that knowledge needs to be formalised, since it is essentially of a fragmentary and provisional nature (Arce and Long, 1992:211). It is in this formalisation phase that problems with respect to the application of indigenous knowledge are most likely to arise. This type of knowledge is still not as well known as the coded and circulated objective language and the printed products of scientific discourse. Experiments in Sudan and Burkina Faso focusing on indigenous perceptions of area, weight and space illustrate these problems.
THE FEAR OF MADNESS - NI 209 - Letters Democratic rule can only become a reality when African people place their The cultures of some 40 indigenous peoples are considered backward and http://www.newint.org/issue209/letters.htm
Extractions: In your struggle to dig up hope for Africa in the 1990s NI 208 ) you gave naive solutions. Of course the continent needs greater democracy. But you ignore the power struggles between ethnic groups and the widespread practice of nepotism - which have soured democracy in the past. Democratic rule can only become a reality when African people place their interests as individuals and communities before kinship bonds. This is possible. In the harsh terrain of north-eastern Sudan, the Rashida and the Beja nomads compete for scarce resources. They only survive by acknowledging their common interests and ultimately, by co-operating. The Beja nomads even coin the word silif
BRIIFS Abstracts Vol.3 No.2, 2001 For African peoples, accounts of globalizations have thus far taken on the cast in the south and displacing indigenous African peoples from those areas. http://www.riifs.org/abstracts/Abstractransnatnlsm.htm
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