Sudan Quotations

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

I would really love to be able to go back to Sudan in a few years time with open source solutions that could really help make a difference.

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

to expose the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today tens of thousands of black people still suffer the scourge of slavery.

If Sudan is exactly where it is today one year from now, they are going to do exactly what they did today.

There is fear in Khartoum that the U.N. transition will be a conspiracy to bring Sudan in the same situation in Iraq.

Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Peace in the whole of Sudan is vital, not only for this big country -- the biggest in Africa -- but also for the entire African continent and the Arab world.

It is a winner. Sudan is not losing.

Our teams in south Sudan and in Ethiopia are finalizing way stations and organizing for the delivery of assistance to the future returnees.

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy.

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

When Joey skates, the children win. Very few pay attention to the number of children living in conflict around the world, in Sudan and Sierra Leone. We know the power of sports and play. And we have to provide those opportunities to children who are suffering the most.

Beyond the waters of the Nile, oil and minerals, Southern Sudan has a precious - an infinite - natural resource: the minds, the determination and the potential of her people, especially her children.

The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.

The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,

The government of Sudan has taken a strong position against the transition.

The government of Sudan should not have anything against the UN.

The Southern Sudan government budget depends on its share of oil revenue. With limited resources, the southern regional government cannot pay for a new judicial system or police department, nor can it implement plans to improve social services and build infrastructure.

We have made very clear to the government of Sudan that that kind of future behavior is just unacceptable." ()

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

The government wants the blacks to leave Sudan - period,

There are a number of items that we want to see progress on and that is one reason why I am going to Sudan to make sure that the policies under the comprehensive peace accord are on track,

A fragile consensus has collapsed under the weight of the Sudan government's artful diplomacy campaign. It played chicken with the broad international community, and once again the international community drove off the road.

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

No meaningful development can take place without a good road network in southern Sudan. The policy of the government is to construct modern roads that will connect various parts of southern Sudan internally, and link them as well to the outside world.

The war left southern Sudan education in ruins.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

This peace agreement signals the beginning of one Sudan regardless of race, religion or tribe.

We cannot let the government of Sudan get away with that, ... I haven't seen any indication of the international community telling Sudan, 'You don't have a choice, you have to cooperate with the ICC.'

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

Having seen what I've seen in South Sudan, there's no way I can't talk about it.

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.