Sudan the Land of Opportunities, Fact and Figures
09 July, 2011
Khartoum (sudanow.info.sd)- "Our country is welcoming with anticipation a new and rigorous period of its contemporary history in the second half of the current year, 2011. It enters this period with great hope and anticipation for the future, with the confidence of believers and an industrious determination and awareness of our capable human resources and abundant and diverse natural resources which represent a source of power for any developing nation" with these words the State Minister for Information, Sanaa Hamad Al -Awad, introduces a new book " Sudan, the land of Opportunities".
No book could come at a propitioustiming. Sudan is now "two bodies within one soul" as one daily newspaper put it on the day the south was declared an independent state. But it is, the book shows, the day Sudan is moving forwards, showing the world its untapped resources and promising young nations, a nation with huge resources and open widows for investors.
The publication is a comprehensive book that contains facts and basic information about Sudan provided by the Ministry of Information. It provides researchers and investors with up-to-date information about Sudan's resources, governments, its agencies, economy and its indicators, as well as basic information related to the communications, media and transportation, and national regular forces, including details about the country's army.
The information comes on time as Sudan is now changing, not only politically but geographically, ethnically, socially, religiously and name it. Once it used to be surrounded by nine neighbors, now three of those neighbors are eclipsed by the new state, southern Sudan. But to show the rich potentials of the Sudan, it suffices to say that the Nile basin constitutes 67.4 % of the country’s total area. Due to its unique geographical location, Sudan has always been a trading and cultural bridge between northern and southern Africa as well as between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, particularly west and East Africa.
The current people of Sudan descend from a mixture of many ethnicities and groups; most notable are (Arabs/African Hamites), and 96.7% of the population is Muslim.
The book also provide basic historical background about the Sudan which gained independence from the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium on January 1st 1956. In 1955, a year before independence, a war broke out between the central government and different groups from southern Sudan, which continued to flare up and abate except for the period between 1972 and 1983.
"The south, which was subjected to geographic and cultural isolation since the beginning of 1922, in addition to other factors of nature, assumed a relatively special status on the Sudanese state’s map. This led to a development of a sense of not-belonging to the mother-land among a wide sector of the southern Sudanese intelligentsia, and the rebellion against the central government. This war affected the state’s social, economic and political stability and exhausted its human and material resources for more than half a century. "It stated
A series of talks were held between the government and rebel movement in a number of African capitals since November 1989. In 2002, difficult negotiations started aiming at ending the war and reaching a comprehensive and just peace between the central government and southern rebels. The negotiations culminated in the signing of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 which put an end to the war and granted southerners the right to self–determination at the end of an interim period as stipulated in the agreement. Accordingly, a free referendum was conducted on January 9th 2011 in which citizens of the south chose to break away from the rest of the country and create an independent country. On July 9th, 2011, Sudan will witness the beginning of the second republic in its history.
Interesting and despite the fact that it lost about a quarter of its area, Sudan remains the second largest country in Africa and third in the Arab world and t he 16th worldwide, covering a whopping Land area: 1,752,187 sq km. Country’s population in comparison to the world:35th, 3rd in the Arab World and 9th in Africa
For those seeking accurate and up-to-date information about the Sudan, its aspirations and its potential, this is a document released on time and serves the purpose. (For the book in full see /sudanow.info.sd/en/en-essays).
to download the book go to (www.profile.gov.sd, or www.sudanprofile.sd)
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