Na nyie Watanganyika ndio akhasi na mtaondoka tu siku yenu ikifika.
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[TD]Anxiety hit north as Sudan officially splits
Khartoum. Armina Yakub was born in Khartoum and raised her children there, but when they finish their exams, she will join a mass migration and return with them to their newly independent ancestral homeland."I am leaving for the south. All my relatives have already left," the 32-year-old told AFP as she shopped in the market of Mayo, a Khartoum suburb, after asking warily if the inquirer was a government official.
Yakub's anxiety is shared by many southerners remaining in the north after south Sudan gains full independence today.Since October, 360,000 southerners have already returned, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), many of them
motivated by the
simple desire to participate in the historic birth of their nation.
More than one million remain in the north, but some hostile signals from the Khartoum government have raised fears about their future status -- including their right to
work and
own property -- which has accelerated the exodus in recent weeks.
"There have been a number of unfortunate messages, some very unpleasant messages, here in the north," said UNHCR Sudan representative Peter de Clercq.But unfortunately what people are sticking with are these bad messages. They would like to have concrete assurances, and that no one can give them," he added. In a sign of the perceived threat to those staying in Khartoum, the labour ministry sent
termination notices to all southern
civil servants in the north, effective from July 8.
The government has ruled out the possibility of
dual nationality, which effectively means
southerners in the north will be
stripped of their Sudanese citizenship when a transitional period expires in nine months.
By Frank Kimboy
The Citizen Reporter
Dodoma. The government has warned against calls for the establishment of three governments in the country as proposed by some legislators, saying the move would be a catalyst for splitting the union.
Mr Sitta who is also the East African Cooperation minister said the reintroduction of Tanganyika government for Mainland would create a rivalry with the revolutionary government of Zanzibar.Mr Sitta said that currently neither Zanzibar nor Tanzania Mainland contributed membership fees for being part of the United Republic of Tanzania.
He said the introduction of
membership fees, which would follow the introduction of
three governments, would be a burden to both governments. Currently Zanzibar owes the Tanzania National Electric Company (Tanesco) about
Sh50 billion and pays
less fees to access electricity, compared to their mainland counterparts
Tell me, if
Tanganyika stood as a separate government, do you think they would have agreed with the current situation? he posed.
Mr Sitta said that rather than call for three governments, propagators of the idea should
come out in the open and say whether they want the
Union to be split or not.
Mr Sitta also rubbished claims by some legislators that the Union government has been barring Zanzibar from joining international communities.
He said Zanzibar has been failing to join international communities and federations due to international laws that require only a sovereign state to join. For example, Mr Sitta said, the
cabinet had once requested that Zanzibar be granted the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) membership but the
OIC turned down the request because Zanzibar was not a sovereign country.
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