Celebration of the Nairobi Declaration and Exist from the Arab League by Ahmed Kanem

04:51 PM July, 09 2019

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The African Sudanese Forces held a mass rally at the Pawa 254 in Nairobi, Kenya on June 29, 2019. The event was attended by a large numbers of Sudanese, Kenyans, some Southern Sudanese and foreigners. The event was organized by a group of Pan-Africanist youth led by Mohammed Eltayieb Ahmed Elnaiem, Sahar Arreyeh, Mamadou Abu Zeid, Conan Tippen and Saba El-Lazim Basha. In which Mohammed Al-Naeem and Mamadou Abu Zeid spoke about the event, then Sahar Alrayah recite a poem about the revolution and the aspirations of young people, and Mahmoud Yousif spoke of the re-awareness of the Sudanese society and the hope for the new Sudan, then Makoi Majak and Garang Poljour of the Red Card Movement from South Sudan spoke about their experience for a democratic society, and the Kenyan Artist “Fresha” from the band p-unit praising the Sudanese revolution and welcoming this announcement.

Both Mohammed Eltayieb Ahmed Elnaiem and Saba El-Lazim read out “The Nairobi Declaration," which called on behalf of the Sudanese from the north, south, east and west, the revolutionaries in exile, some concerned, some witnesses, and some victims of the massacres in Sudan, read out our Africanisms as a basis for unification of our country, and the symbolic declaration of Sudan's exit from the Arab League, and the call for the re-flag of independence, and the demand to start a process of peace and reconciliation to address the fractions that divided us, and demand full gender and racial representation at all levels of governance, the end of unequal development, the strong focus on the development of peripheral forces that given us this revolution, and the creation of a democratic state a non-police state, the statement emphasized the specialty of the Sudanese people it also pointed out that Arab nationalism was a plague that fed massacres, genocides and campaigns of ethnic cleansing, while tribes in other countries developed into political ideologies. The African statement therefore proposed a solution to the problem of all these nationalities and tribes in Africa. For this, we must recognize the mistakes of the past and find comprehensive solutions to peace and reconciliation, and the adoption of the Sudanese thesis of the late Dr. John Garang as a criterion for Sudanese unity and the basis of African unity.

In the evening, a fruitful discussion was held on the basis of this relationship and how to implement it. Organizers also promised more activities to move these proposals forward.