The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
Having obtained access in June 1999 for a Humanitarian Needs Assessment, after a
ten year blockade of the Nuba Mountains, the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) in conjunction with other NGOs has been negotiating full access to all areas in the Mountains, including areas under both SPLA/M and Government. However, only little progress has been made in this respect.
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
By Dr Hunud Abia Kadouf
Let me begin by telling you a very short and a common story that we learnt long ago while we were very young in the elementary school. I still remember it as most of us certainly do because the story itself is very 'prophetic'. We were told that 'there was an old wise man who was very rich with many wives and children. When he was about to die he asked all his children to gather besides his dying bed. Near him there was a number of arrows tied up in a bundle. When the children came the old man asked the oldest and the strongest to pick up a single arrow and try to break it.
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
The Story of a Sudanese people Struggle for Survival.
The book about the Nuba people in central Sudan who are struggling to survive in the face of military, political and cultural policies of the Sudan Government, which is attempting to wipe out their identity. It contains contributions by prominent Nuba scholars, activists and leaders, and articles and photographs by George Rodger, in 1940s.
Price $21.95 or £15.50 plus postage.
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
By Suleiman Musa Rahhal
In February 2001 the US Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) produced an important report on 'U.S. Policy to End Sudan's War'. Compiled by a panel of experts to inject a new momentum and determination to find a just and lasting peace for Sudan, the report covered most of the underlying causes of the conflict and made some useful recommendations to the new American Administration.
The Nuba Vision
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2001
By Mijia Mersol, Editor in Chief of Delo
Tomo Kriznar, a world traveller, Suleiman Musa Rahhal, representative of the Nuba people. Tomo, unshaven and with a colour of face marked by sun and wind, in a T-shirt with an appeal to help the Nuba. Suleiman clean shaven with glasses, business suit a tie well matching the colour of his shirt. Tomo is a little bit more in “origin” clothes and Suleiman more in “western” style. Some kind of contradiction which could be understandable. Tomo is a Slovenia who has done more than anybody else to dispel the idea that Slovenia is a xenophobic nation. Our world cycling 'champion' is also a Slovenia who feels deeply for the pain and misfortunes of another nation far beyond our experience - for the indigenous people of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan.