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Rift Valley Institute Field Courses 2013
The Rift Valley Institute’s three field courses, now in their tenth year, offer a
unique opportunity to spend an intensive week and fellow participants, away from routine
distractions. Taught by teams of leading regional and international specialists, the courses
provide the basis for an understanding of current political and developmental challenges in
Eastern and Central Africa. The innovative programme of seminars, lectures, group discussions
and special events examines key environmental, political and cultural features of the three
sub-regions, contextualizing contemporary problems. They are designed for policy-makers,
diplomats, investors, development workers, researchers, activists and journalists––for new
arrivals to the region and those already working there who wish to deepen their
understanding.Sudan and South Sudan Course
Saturday 6 – Friday 12 July
The tenth RVI course on Sudan and South Sudan will be held in Jinja, Uganda, from 6 to 12 July
2013. The course will again be under the direction of Justin Willis of the University of Durham.
Core teaching staff will include Magdi el-Gizouli of Freiburg University, Joanna Oyediran of the
Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, and Douglas Johnson, author of The Root
Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars. A course prospectus, containing further details on all
three courses, is attached or can be downloaded here. Apply online here.
For further details of the format, syllabus and core teaching staff of the courses, please see
the attached course prospectus, or have your assignment done here. Alternatively you can
visit www.riftvalley.net/courses or write to [email protected].
You can apply online here or via www.riftvalley.net. The application deadline
is 31 March 2023. Applications will be considered in order of receipt. All
participants can get custom research papers at MyEssayWriting.co.uk.

Week of Supporting Sudan: For Just Peace and
Democracy
Cairo in 4/7/2023
Press Release
Week of Supporting Sudan: For Just Peace and Democracy
Cairo: 7 - 11 July, 2012
The Arab Coalition for Darfur, and the Sudanese Group for Democracy First arrange
week of solidarity with the peopleof Sudan on issues of just peace and democracy in Cairo, Egypt,
from Saturday, July 7 to Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
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The Schedule of the Sudan Issues Advocacy Week covers number of activities; among them a Cultural
Festival Day and enlightening seminar entitled "Call from Land" at the Nation House
Museum (Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center) in 2 Saad Zaghloul St., Saida Zainab, Cairo on July 8 from
2:30 pm to 11:00 pm. The day includes the presentation of a documentary film along with a photo
gallery of victims of crimes against humanity and aerial bombardment from the government against
citizens in the areas of Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan, Darfur and Abyei. In addition, the day
will involve a concert with songs for peace and justice in Sudan. During the week, bilateral
meetings will be held between the Sudanese delegation with officials of the Arab League, the
Egyptian Foreign Ministry and a number of embassies of Arab countries concerned with Sudan issue
in Egypt. It will cover open meetings with Egyptian and international civil society organizations
operating within Egypt, along with interviews with media outlets, TV channels and regional and
Egyptian newspapers. The Advocacy Week aims to highlight the humanitarian tragedy faced by
civilians, displaced people, and refugees from areas of Southern Kardofan and Blue Nile, and to
urge the Sudanese government to allow access of humanitarian agencies to about half a million
affected people facing the danger of famine and the continuing aerial bombardment. They are in
desperate need of water, food, medicine, and shelter.
Throughout the events of this Week, the Arab Coalition for Darfur and the Sudanese Group for
Democracy First aim to break the silence and to draw the attention of the public opinion and
officials in the Arab world of the dire Sudanese crisis which exceeds what is happening in
the Arab countries in terms of the humanitarian and human rights aspects and the number of
victims and the nature and the brutality of the crimes as well, in an effort to stimulate
solidarity and assistance to the Sudanese people in their quest to change the crisis. The
organizers also aim to re-introduce the crises of Sudan as overlapping and interrelated, and to
highlight that the just peace, accountability and democracy cannot be achieved without integration
and interdependence or without sacrifice and compromise any of them at the expense of the
other.
The Sudan Advocacy Week is to take place with the participation of a number of intellectuals and
civil society representatives from the Sudan, South Sudan, Egypt and a number of Arab countries.
The activities of the Week includes the participation of a delegation of civil society and
independent media leaders, such as Dr. Ahmed Abdel Rahman Saeed, former Parliamentarian and
specialist in humanitarian issues and human rights in the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan, and Mr.
Haj Warraq, the political analyst and editor of Freedoms electronic newspaper, Ms. Amal Habbani,
the writer, journalist and leader of the Initiative "No to Women Oppression" and Mr.
Mohammed Abdullah Al-Dumah, the Minister and the former Parliamentarian and the Chairman of Darfur
Lawyer Council, Mr. Yai Joseph, the journalist and the human rights defender of the state of South
Sudan, and Mr. Abdel Monim Jack, the researcher in Social Sciences and Director of the Sudanese
Group for Democracy First.
The organizing bodies will provide a detailed program of the activities of the Advocacy Week in
the coming days.
For more information and for inquiries, see the website: www.acdarfur.net

International pressure on northern Sudan needed for democratic
transition
(21 February 2023) More than a dozen civil society organizations
called today on President Obama of the United States and Foreign Secretary Hague of the United
Kingdom to press northern Sudan to undertake concrete legal and institutional reforms designed to
ensure a smooth transition to democracy in the post-referendum north and south Sudan.
Read the letter to President Obama here
Read the letter to Foreign Secretary Hague here

Peace and Security Council should protect the right to a
nationality in Sudan
(Addis Ababa, 28 January 2023) More than two dozen civil society
organisations called today
on the AU’s Peace and Security Council to ensure that the rights of all Sudan’s existing
citizens to a nationality are fully protected following the probable secession of South Sudan.
The PSC has been following the implementation of the Sudan Comprehensive Peace
Agreement, which provided for the referendum on independence of South Sudan.
Read full press release here
Read submission to the PSC here

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