Submitted by: Mohamed A. Gornas, MD, Ayman A. El-Mesallamy, MD, Tahir H. Obeid, FRCP, FAAN, Anas E. Babiker, CSCST Cardiology, MSc Interv. Cardiology. From the Department of Neurology (Gornas, Obeid), the Department of Radiology (El-Mesallamy), and the Department of Cardiology (Babiker), Alzaytouna Specialist Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. Address correspondence to: Prof. Tahir H. Obeid, University...

Agreement (CPA) in 2005 marked the end of 22 years of civil war in Southern Sudan between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). While officially a ‘post-conflict’ context, violence and displacement persist, and efforts to bring about a visible ‘peace dividend’ have had only marginal impact. As a referendum on independence for the South approaches in January 2011, the...

Satellite-based evapotranspiration and crop coefficient for irrigated sorghum in the Gezira scheme, Sudan M. A. Bashir, T. Hata, A. W. Abdelhadi, H. Tanakamaru, and A. Tada Dept. of Food Systems and Field Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657–8501, Japan Agricultural Research Corporation, PO Box 126, Wad Medani, Sudan Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe U...

South Sudan is one of the countries that has been hit by internal conflict since its independence in 2011. This article basically describes involvement civil society peace negotiations Sudan. Using literature study method and through concepts peace, this reviews analyzes extent to which local involved negotiation process a finding participation efforts quite high, but not significant. an implic...

We report on a cluster of relapsing vivax malaria among Eritrean refugees residing in Israel. Since the beginning of 2010, 15 cases have been identified. Five of the six patients who had complete medical and epidemiological histories, reported Sudan as the place of primary infection during their journey to Israel, and having had the first relapse in Israel, six months later (median). Suggested ...

Moldy and split peanut kernels were separated from peanuts exported from Brazil, Sudan, India and Taiwan by visual inspection. The remaining peanuts from Brazil, Sudan and India were roasted lightly and the skins were removed. Stained peanuts were separated from the others. Aflatoxin was detected in moldy and stained peanuts. There was a positive correlation between % of aflatoxin-contaminated ...

1New Halfa Hospital, New Halfa, Sudan. 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. Received: 14/07/03; accepted: 28/10/03 ABSTRACT Pregnant Sudanese women who presented at a hospital in eastern Sudan with chloroquineresistant falciparum malaria were randomly allocated to one of two quinine regimens: low-dose (10 mg/kg 2 times/day) (18 patients) or standard (10 mg/kg 3 times/d...

China has developed a more consequential role in Sudan over the past two decades, during which it has become bound up in the combination of enduring violent internal instability and protracted external adversity that has characterized the politics of the central state since the 1989 Islamist revolution. Two inter-related political trajectories of China’s Sudan engagement are examined here. The ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiology of tobacco smoking, toombak dipping and alcohol consumption as risk factors for cancer in the adult population of the northern state of Sudan. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey from March to April 2010, covering 963 adults, was performed. RESULT Only 207 had responded, and the male female prevalence was 20.8% an...