ADAROUB SEDNA ONOUR

SudaneseOnline: سودانيزاونلاين

I rat-a-tat-tat, on this issue of humanitarian agencies in sudan time and again because itis my area of expertise &experiencce, and because i was immensely alarmed,despite my woking for none at the time, when the president expelled them under the false accusations of espionage and the safeguarding of national -soveriegnity as he put it..I still speak on behalf of none, I just want to call the bluff and remind those of us who seem to have forgotten the generous huge inceasant shipments of free food,which saved  millions of our people in the west and east of sudan in mid-1985 to date . especially in eastern sudan,where I saw people dying in front of my own eyes by acute hunger, and where ,still today, vulnerability  to periodical food shortage is higher than elsewhere in sudan.because since independence in 1956 no focused,committed efforts were exerted to solve this long-acknowledged problem.,which confirms the suspicions of some of us that we,as BEJA,are being subjected to a systematic,conscious policy of annihillation..which is best manefested  in there being no sincere attempts aiming at bridging the gab of stark variations in development-standards between our region and the rest of the country(the rest of sudan,so to speak) ..and the few examles I would be giving from the RED SEA STATE,where I live, indicate that INGOs will neither run their full course,nor achieve any of their set-objectives of lifting their target-communities from this man-made poverty and  create suitable situations for the IDPs to go back to their normal life in their original places and/or train them to qualify for competition in the labor-market ,should choose to stay on in their new shanty houses in the outer -skirts &prepheries of towns,where they lead a miserale life engaging in marginal low-paid professions,ctitically lacking health services,education etc..the problem is that donors and the regime have nothing in common..for while the humanitarian agencies,on the one hand seek to help  the target-beneficiaries,who are victims of unjust,exclusive policies..the regime,which is in its dying days, on the other hand ,seeks to solve its immediate need for budget-transactions in hard currencies which itis desperately in need of, and to achieve that it has in-seated pro-regime elements in the governmental labor-office and HAC,humanitarian aid commission,(in sudan there is no merit-system , equal opportunity because there are no employment agencies?)such individuals who have by circumstances or choice become alienated from the traditional  age-long tolerance of the sudanese society ,damaged the past-patterns of reasonable social ballance and peaceful-coexistence observed in the old good days of the solid,respectable sudanese middle-class??and such being the case, no wonder that the honarary chair-person of the supposedly-independent, UN-agency UNIDO is the governor of the red sea state(logically,his relative secured a post )??let alone the under-qulified security elements or on- job government officials who secured posts in INGOs operating here,after PASSING state-sponsored,pre-fixed ,mickey-mouse ,superficial interviews ,from which cadres of the highest caliber are decidedly excluded??not to mention the WFP-clercks most of whom can hardly write a correct sentence(the red sea sub-office is presided by a good- for- nothing jordanian who joined as a mere tally-clerck.. and has now been promoted to yet another higher position in  the country-office in khartoum?such being the the situation ,bribes,tribal kinship and political leanings become the decisive requirements to get a job, and areas of intervention are subject to regime consent,(the regime uses that for political polarisation) and no scientific, technical needs -assessments are independently conducted by agencies because this  is not allowed or  accepted by their governmental partners ? for instance south-tokar area was the battle-field for  the ferocious war between the beja-opposition and the government forces and is in dire need for  deminig but there is no such undertaking there, the same for rural port sudan-district in which the notorious rigging of the elections by the regime took place(was revealed to the whole world(..thanks to global interconecttedness.).that area is being duly punished and is not blessed by any kind of assistance ?of couse my role as an activist goes nowhere beyond spotting the symptoms of corruption,but I dont think the role of aid-agencies is to take  the pressure of obligations off the regime shoulder,which instead of providing basic-public services to its people..it capitalizes in that, by selling the supposedly free services to   the already,jobless,hard-up people suffering because of events out-side their control /choice. which conjures to my mind  questions rattling in my brain for long..why deny the willing-to-help international agencies access to needy people in the east,west and war-torn south -kordofan and blue-nile regions?and  those going by the name of opposition should break their silence and condemn this tragedy NOW.though,thanks to god,,,those under-mining and fragmenting the unification of our oposition are exposed,to their blind-followers,when they jumped at the regime offer of alliance,thus  betraying  us as the did several times before .so we must be very keen that they stand accused of this  betrayal FOR EVER..


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