A season of return to the roots … Sudanese passionate Ramadan coexist for the first time in 26 years

For the first time in nearly 26 years, Ramadan was coexisting with compassion, after Sudan regained control of about 90% of the territory of the highly fertile region, on which Ethiopia imposed settlement control since 1995.

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Due to the Ethiopian settlement-based control by constructing settlements, linking them with roads with the Ethiopian interior, and changing the demographics of the region, the local authorities in the Sudanese state of Gedaref established a special celebration of Ramadan in the sense that 90% of its lands were restored according to the army.

According to the Sudanese government in January, Ethiopian farmers, under the protection of armed militias, built 17 villages and 8 settlements within the Sudanese borders

Euphoria of comeback

Mubarak al-Nur, an independent parliamentarian from the Fashaqa department in the previous parliament, describes Ramadan this year as special in the region after returning to the arms of the homeland.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, he points out that the heavy presence of the army in the area made the people of Fashaqa live Ramadan normally, as it was before the Ethiopians seized the area.

He confirms the return of mass breakfasts and gifts of “fasting sacks” in agricultural workers’ compounds and villages east of the Atbara River, whose residents were opting to cross into the West Bank with the onset of the rainy season that falls these days.

On his visit to the headquarters of the Army’s General Command, Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok was briefed last Monday on a plan to maintain the eastern front for engineering equipment that the army had implemented by constructing 3 bridges on the Atbara River, roads and crossings to ensure the continuity of the movement. https://www.facebook.com/v3.2/plugins/post.php?app_id=&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.fa

Ramadan requirements

The most prominent challenges faced by the Gedaref state government and the army command stationed along the Ethiopian border were the lack of needs in the area’s mosques and the “Khalawi” (retreat) of the Qur’an for imams, Qur’ans, bedspreads, lighting and loudspeakers.

The army, in cooperation with the Zakat Bureau in the state of Gedaref, succeeded in distributing these needs that enabled the reconstruction of “cells” and raising the call to prayer in the mosques, so that the spiritual and social atmosphere of Ramadan prevailed.

Under the supervision of the Moral Guidance Center led by the second division of the army, Ramadan programs were active in the Anfal camps, East Sundus, the Abu Tayyur mountain range, and the Kenina, Al-Qallabat, Basinda, Taya and Umm Dablo sectors.

The commander of the 2nd Infantry Division in Al-Qadarif, Major General Haider Al-Tarifi, confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net the regularity of advocacy programs that included Quran memorization and recitation sessions with the participation of soldiers inside the villages and border areas after supporting the mosques and “Al Khalawi”.

He refers to employing the capabilities of a number of officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers in teaching the Qur’an and Islamic sciences through recitation circles in mosques, Qur’anic schools and clubs.

He added that Ramadan breathed life into the border strip, along the 265 km, by entrusting places of worship and providing food for the sheikhs of “Khalawi” and mosques.

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According to a member of the Al-Fashqa Lands Committee of the Rashid Abdul Qadir, the restored areas suffer from a scarcity of drinking water, especially since the rainy season has just begun.

And he assures Al-Jazeera Net that the heavy deployment of the army, despite its importance as a demand of the people of Al-Fashaqa, has put pressure on scarce water sources during the drought.

However, Abdel Qader says that this suffering did not prevent the residents of the region from celebrating the army forces stationed on the mountains and trenches in the area, as the second half of Ramadan will witness mass breakfasts for the people in the army camps.

At a cost of 10 million pounds (25 thousand dollars), the Zakat Bureau in Al-Qadarif launched the Al-Fashqa fisheries project within the program of “abundant giving for the month of Ramadan.”

In its first phase, 15 families who owned fishing boats benefit from the program to change the pattern of livelihood, create job opportunities and provide fish at a lower cost, in a way that reduces the burden of living and combats poverty.

Ramadan good

The state government plans to establish fish farms in the Sde Lake, the upper Atbara and Sitet rivers, and to build factories for processing industries to give the fish an additional value.

The governor of Gedaref, Suleiman Ali, pledged to expand the project to benefit from the dam lake, saying that Setit is a tourist-eligible area, and the government will work to make it a tourist attraction.

The dam complex on the upper Atbara and Setit rivers was opened in February 2017 to generate 350 megawatts of electricity. By taking advantage of its lake, one million acres of land can be cultivated, fish farms established, and drinking water crises solved.

Fashaqa is divided into small and large, which are vast and extremely fertile lands cut by the seasonal rivers of Atbara, Peace and Setit.

These rivers separate the region from Sudan and make it open to Ethiopia, which controlled the region for more than 25 years before the Sudanese army regained it.