Weekly Press Columns Digest
15 September, 2019
KHARTOUM (Sudanow)—At last now we have a convincing government of the best Sudanese qualifications that we have missed over 30 years, said Asma'a Juma'ah in a column that was published by Altayyar daily newspaper of Sunday.
The sort of qualifications is the one that makes people feel optimistic or pessimistic about the government and the government of Dr. Hamdok possesses many advantages that make people optimistic after three decades during which the deposed president used to reshuffle his government after short intervals appointing ministers usually worse than their predecessors, Asma'a wrote.
Commenting on a recent statement by National Umma Party leader Sadek al-Mahdi in which the former Prime Minister suggested that early elections be called in case of failure of Hamdok government, the columnist precluded any failure of this government because, she argued, it possesses all the properties of success and is overwhelmingly acceptable by the people, while Hamdok has presented an excellent vision of his government performance and has gained a worldwide welcome as manifested by the numerous messages of congratulations and of success pledges by world leaders.
Asma'a said the Sudanese people were happy because the ministers were chosen according to the curricula vitae and their international positions, compared to those of the extinct regime who were chosen for trivial reasons, irrespective of their qualifications, no matter if they were dropouts.
We should all work together to prevent failure of this government because early elections cannot bring about a government that is better and more competent than that of Hamdok in addressing the Sudan problems, said Asma'a.
She predicted that the elections might turn the Sudan into another Libya, arguing that the Sudanese people are not psychologically prepared to accept any political party while the country, according to Asma'a, is still full of gangs and battalions of the defunct regime and there are countries which are lying in wait for exploiting the situation, especially the supporters of the Islamic movement.
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Columnist Lina Yagoub has considered a call by new Religious Affairs Minister Nasr al-Dinn Mufarreh upon Jews who left Sudan decades ago to come back to the country as they are Sudanese by nationality.
It is great to show religious tolerance by the Minister, something which is attributed to his background as a member of the Ansar sect, the nucleus of the National Umma Party, and a prayers leader (imam) of a mosque in Rebek, on the white Nile, said Lina in a column published by Al-Sudani daily newspaper of Tuesday.
The move, however, is not one that is to be decided by a single minister but must be considered as a comprehensive policy by the state as the Israeli and Jewish question is a sensitive one that influences the country' interests and external relations in a positive or negative way, she said.
Commenting on the Minister's first ever statement on Television, the columnist said it is improper for the ministers to make individual and conflicting statements that could tarnish the Sudan's new image.
She compared this tolerant call to what Lina called a quasi-stupid policy by the defunct regime, taking a rigid position towards Israel to the extent that an official of that regime would not salute an Israeli verbally or by shaking hands.
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The unprecedented popular support accorded to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is due to many reasons, foremost of which is the long suffering by the Sudanese people who could not get their essential needs of food, health, education, etc. over 30 years, said Mustafa Muhaker in a column published by Alintibaha daily newspaper of Wednesday.
However, the columnist warned that this support would wane with time if the problems suffered by the people were not duly addressed by the government of Dr. Hamdok.
The people are not concerned at the present time with the political affiliations of the government officials; they only want their country to occupy the dignified position it deserves and to be salvaged from long queues in front of the bakeries, added Muhaker, noting that even Islamic groups granted support to Hamdok and his government.
The new government has to distance itself from the policy of isolation and revenge from the political adversaries which stimulated the fall of its predecessor and should bring anyone who had illegally made any amount of the public money to accountability, the columnist said.
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A refreshing breeze blew from Juba, South Sudan, conveying news of agreement between the Sudanese transitional government and the Revolutionary Front (rebel movements) on a declaration of principles for reaching peace, wrote Abdul Jalil Suleiman in a column published by Alyoum Altali daily newspaper of Thursday.
He said the transitional government has placed achievement of peace at the top of 10 priorities it has vowed to accomplish during its first 200 days in power.
It is logical to pay concern for fair reaching peace as it is a prerequisite for development and stability in the country, the columnist said, adding that civil wars in Africa constituted the main obstacles hindering the development of the African countries.
As an example, he cited Rwanda which, after putting an end to devastating civil wars between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes, has managed to make wide strides in development in a few years' time.
Suleiman also made reference to the experiment of Ethiopia which also experienced armed conflicts and after the ouster of Mengistu Haile Meriam, his successors Meles Zenawe, Haile Meriam Dusalin and Aby Ahmed, made tremendous strides of development in a civil democratic society.
He did not forget to mention the 10 years of stability and development in Sudan that followed the 1972 Addis Ababa between former President Gaafer Nimeiry and rebel Anyanya leader Joseph Lagu.
Suleiman called upon rebel leader Abdul Wahid Nor to join the current efforts for finding peace in Sudan.
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Arriving from Ireland, Health Minister Dr. Akrum Ali al-Toam was confronted with cholera and immediately flew to Ed Damazin where he met with another disease that is more dangerous than the cholera, that is, the anti-corruption fever, wrote Osama Abdul Majid in a column published by Akhir Lahza daily newspaper of Saturday.
The columnist said the internal medicine specialist had to address a rally of youth who gathered in front of a hospital in the Blue Nile capital chanting shouts for fighting corruption.
Dr. Toam, according to the columnist, told the gathering that justice cannot be served with shouts and that anyone who possesses an evidence of corruption has to present it so that justice can take its course, noting that corruption is not confined to Islamists, even the present government may catch the disease.
"You can force us to account for any misdeed or any act of corruption you believe we have perpetrated," the Health Minister was cited by Majid as telling the gathering of fervent youth.
He underlined that he would not politicize the performance of his Ministry and that any civilian, "even Beshir" will have the medical service because, he went on, "health service is the right for everyone."
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Columnist Zuhair al-Sarraj has described the current trial of deposed dictator Omar al-Beshir for illegally possessing and dealing in foreign exchange as a comical drama in which a defense witness, Beshir's office director, told the court that on orders by his boss, he had handed cash money over to the African University and to the medical corps, in a desperate attempt by the defense council to acquit the defendant.
Sarraj said in a column published by Aljareedah daily newspaper of Monday that the acquittal attempt was made despite the fact that Beshir had shamelessly confessed that he had received bribes from foreign bodies, possessed the money illegally and dealt with those money out of the official channels.
You just imagine that this criminal murderer is being tried for the ridiculous charges, although he had committed such grave crimes as killing 300,000 people in Darfur besides killing innocent demonstrators and undermining a constitutional legitimacy and toppling a democratic system, said Sarraj.
All those crimes need no proof or witnesses as he had confessed that he had killed only 10,000 people in Darfur and he had overthrown a democratic government according to the first statement of the coup d'état, said the columnist.
He added that the military security committee that removed Beshir from power declared in its statement on April 11 that it would not hand Beshir over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and would try him internally, something which should have been carried out instead of presentation of this funny foreign exchange comedy.
Sarraj noted that a lawsuit by a number of national lawyers for trying Beshir on a charge of undermining the legitimacy in June 1989 went unheeded by the Transitional Military Council that was then ruling the country, while no one of the defunct regime was brought to trial for perpetrating such crimes as murder and subversion.
Noting that Beshir was brought to the courtyard in a luxurious motorcar because he refused to be driven in the prison's car, the columnist said the people would not cease demanding justice be done for the martyrs of Darfur and December and all other victims of the extinct regime it has committed throughout the past three decade of its rule..
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