I have known the Nuba people for sixty years. I have waved in my support for them throughout these many difficult years, but now, it saddens me that at this crucial time in Nuba history, divisions exist with regard to their future statehood and identity.

It is perfectly understandable that such divisions have arisen in a people who suffered and were scattered in such unprecedented way, after years of warfare. There are those who remained in the mountains with all the suffering involved: those who were driven to take up arms with the southern forces: those who were scattered throughout the world: those who survived among the peoples of the north. It would be surprising if after all these experiences the Nuba shared one common view with regard to their future, but now is a crucial time for them to resolve any differences and to collectively resolve a common strategy.

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Dear Oprah and Dianne,

I am writing to ask you to PLEASE consider doing a program on the Nuba African people of Central Sudan. They are an incredibly beautiful spiritually evolved people who have been caught in the middle of a civil war between the Arab/Islamic government of the North and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) for the past 20 years.  I have enclosed some films from a Slovenia film producer, Tomo Kriznar, who I have become good friends with since I met him at the Telluride Mountain film festival 1 1/2 years ago. When I saw the films of the Nuba people and their plight I became committed to saving these people from further genocide. 

I sent letters to Colin Powell and other government officials about this situation and when I heard about Senator Danforth’s Peace Envoy initiated by the President I sent the senator copies of these films as well as many phone and e-mail messages regarding the plight of the Nuba.  On his arrival to Sudan he choose the Nuba Mountains as a 6 month cease fire test case for peace which has been so far renewed twice, however, the Sudanese government now refuses to come to further peace talks claiming that the Nuba Mountains belongs to the North and refuses to negotiate its self-determination. Senator Danforth and the US is coming to its end in helping in this peace process if the African Nation's Islamic-oriented government and the southern rebels fail to agree within six months on terms to end their two-decade-old civil war.

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As a Nuba and someone who is extremely concerned about the issue of the Nuba Mountains, I was so pleased with the cease-fire agreement which was signed recently between the government of Sudan and SPLA faction in the Nuba Mountains. I was pleased because the agreement has sparked a glimpse of hope as peace will be given a chance to prevail and that will definitely lead to development and stability in that isolated part of my beloved country.

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The Nuba Mountains region is situated in the geographical centre of Sudan and lies between latitudes10-12 degrees north and between longitudes 28-30 degree east. Its area about 50,000 square miles.

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Dear Sir,

Congratulations for the great effort, which you have been contributing to the cause of freedom and dignity of the people of the Nuba Mountains. I would like to take this opportunity to give you my full support for this remarkable work.

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