Tag: Darfur

Sunday Roundup is not a new rendezvous on the Sama Gazette but it is one on Max Dana’s Blog. Last Sunday she started this new series of posts about what caught her attention during the week. It sounds like our weekly Friday Digest which Max said it inspired her but we have to admit her news roundup is far more detailed than ours. We still have to learn a lot from her, we know that! So we decided to cross post it here. You can also read this post on ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

Last October we launched ‘En Route To Sudan’, a section on the Sama Gazette dedicated to Sudan and the upcoming South Sudan (and Abyei) referendums. This special page is was updated every day with news from Sudan, featured articles, RSS feeds from organizations, links to websites, video, books we recommend… We also created a Twitter list @samagazette/en-route-to-sudan. Three months later, ‘En Route To Sudan’ is a success ...

Our previous post in our Art in Sudan section was dedicated to Sudanese artist Ahmed Abushariaa; today we are pleased to introduce you to another great Sudanese artist: El Tayib Daw El Bait. El Tayib is in his forties, he was trained at the School of Art and Design in Khartoum and lives in Nairobi, Kenya. What makes his work so interesting is his freedom to create: paintings (acrylic, oil) or textile design for fashion house KikoRomeo, El Tayib Daw El ...

If you follow the updates on En Route To Sudan, then you have noticed a list of books we recommend. Among them is The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. But if you are not into reading books, the film The Devil Came On Horsebackwhich exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to ...

As the Sama Gazette was created by Max Dana, an artist herself, we had to also mention Art in our coverage of what is currently happening in Sudan on ‘En Route To Sudan’. So today we are glad to introduce you to Sudanese artist Ahmed Abushariaa, born in 1966 in Sudan and graduated in fine and applied arts from Sudan University, Khartoum in 1990. An introduction to Abushariaa’s paintings by Prof. Elimo Njau, Director, Paa Ya Paa Arts ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

As you may already know by now, we have launched our first special section on the Sama Gazette: En Route To Sudan. Dedicated to news and resources about Sudan, this section of the site counts many visitors everyday and we hope it will help everyone to find interesting information about Sudan, and learn about the referendums, the challenges and issues. Amongst the many links to websites and twitter pages we mention Rebecca Hamilton. She is a Special ...

We announced it before Summer break and we mentioned it in September: we have been working on several new sections and special editions on the Sama Gazette. The first one of these new ‘rendezvous’ has launched today and is titled: En Route To Sudan, an online resources for everything concerning Sudan. Since the Sama Gazette is online, we have published many articles about the situation in Sudan. We closely follow organizations and ...

We have a great interest in Sudan. We published many news about the country, about organizations and actions aimed to raise awareness and also support aid workers in the field. In our last Twitter Sunday post dedicated to i-ACT, we invited you to support 100 Days of Action for Sudan: The Referenda Countdown; today we wanted to talk about Sudan Freedom and The Sudan Freedom Walk 2010 which goal is ‘to fight for democracy and freedom from genocide and ...