Malaitian villiage boy from the solomon islands

Also, pray for our brothers in the south pacific as well, and hope that the tsunami does not hit their islands as well.

I guest everyone is fascinated by the blonds. lol i will post few more pictures of them and other melanesian tribes in the pacific as well.

exhibit B:

As a non nigerian, i don't think nigerians look alike, behold exhibit A and B.

http://www.kanuri.net/kanuri_and_their_neighbours2.php?aID=232&cID=

http://www.kanuri.net/pic.php?pID=119

arabic types are all equally sudanese

sudan south

Interestingly Sudanese have a diversity of different looks, if you go to western Sudan the people(not all) majority look similar to west Africans. The northern sudanese and northern eastern sudanese look very similar to ancient egyptians, ethiopians, eritreans, and few arabs that migranted from the arabian pensula, and central sudan many people resemble other nilotes, therefore is not one look in Sudan. In many respects Sudan is a microcosm of AFrica.

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Egypt army takes charge, Mubarak to address nation


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AP – The local government headquarters, is set on fire by protesters, claiming delays on requests for housing …
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press – 30 mins ago
CAIRO – Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Mubarak planned a speech to the nation Thursday night, raising expectations he would step down or transfer his powers.
Protesters packed in Cairo's central Tahrir Square broke into chants of "We're almost there, we're almost there" and waved V-for-victory signs as more flowed in to join them well after nightfall, bringing their numbers well over 100,000. But euphoria that they were nearing their goal of Mubarak's fall was tempered with worries that a military takeover could scuttle wider demands for true democracy. Many vowed to continue protests.
The developments created confusion over who was calling the shots in Egypt and whether Mubarak and the military were united on the next steps.
The military's moves had some trappings of an outright takeover, perhaps to push Mubarak out for the army to run the country itself in a break with the constitution. But comments by Mubarak's aides and his meetings with the top two figures in his regime — Vice President Omar Suleiman and Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq — before his speech suggested he may try to carry out a constitutionally allowed half-measure of handing his powers to Suleiman while keeping his title as president.
That step would likely not satisfy protesters, and it was not clear if the military supports such a move. The United States' CIA director Leon Panetta said Mubarak appeared poised to hand over his powers to Suleiman.
State television said Mubarak will speak to the nation Thursday night from his palace in Cairo. Information Minister Anas el-Fiqqi said he would not resign, state TV reported. Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq insisted Mubarak was still in control, saying "everything is in the hands of President Hosni Mubarak and no decisions have been taken yet."
President Barack Obama said, "We are witnessing history unfold" in Egypt and vowed the United States would continue to support an orderly and genuine transition to democracy. But he and the White House gave no indication if they knew what the next steps would be. The U.S. has close ties to the Egyptian military, which Washington give $1.3 billion a year in aid.
The dramatic developments capped 17 days of mass anti-government protests, some drawing a quarter-million people, to demand Mubarak's immediate ouster. What began as an Internet campaign swelled into the stiffest challenge ever to Mubarak's nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule, fueled by widespread frustration over the regime's lock on power, government corruption, rampant poverty and unemployment.
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The protests escalated in the past two days with labor strikes and revolts by state employees that added to the chaos. The rapid ramping up of the unrest was overwhelming the regime's efforts, led by Suleiman, to manage the crisis. In a sign of the government's distress, Suleiman warned parts of the military or police could rise up in a coup.
The military's dramatic announcement in the early evening appeared to show that that its supreme council, headed by Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, had taken the reins of leadership.
Footage on state TV showed Tantawi chairing the council with around two dozen top stern-faced army officers seated around a table. Not at the meeting were Mubarak, the military commander in chief, or his vice president Suleiman, a former army general and intelligence chief named to his post after the protests erupted Jan. 25 and has led regime efforts to resolve the crisis.
"All your demands will be met today," Gen. Hassan al-Roueini, military commander for the Cairo area, told thousands of protesters in central Tahrir Square.
The protesters lifted al-Roueini onto their shoulders and carried him around the square, shouting, "the army, the people one hand." Some in the crowd held up their hands in V-for-victory signs, shouting "the people want the end of the regime" and "Allahu akbar," or "God is great," a victory cry used by secular and religious people alike.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt

this doesnt look like a coup? what do you think?

what is intesting tantawi is nubian as well.

What is interesting the head of the military in Egypt is Nubian his name is Muhammed Hussein Tantawi, hopefully he does what the people wish and set up a democracy and relinquish military controll. He will be the third person of Nubian or Northern Sudanese extraction in this position, the others was Sadat and Egypt and Sudan first modern president Muhammed Naguib, when egypt and northern sudan were one country during the fifties.

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The protest in sudan have nothing to do with the split of the country, like Egypt, Tunisa and Yemen. People of Northern Sudan is tire of this regime. I heard from fews friends there are plans for more protest the following week.

Temple of dangeil/northern sudan highlighting the ancient nile valley god hapi, who was the god of the nile water, and temple highing the interior of the temple of Isis.

Jan. 22, 2011
Saudi Man Dies After Setting Himself On Fire
Saudi Man Dies After Setting Himself On Fire In Possible Imitation Of Tunisian Case
(AP) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Saudi man died after setting himself on fire in the southwestern town of Samta, local media said Saturday, in what could be the latest example of a rash of self-immolations sweeping the region following events in Tunisia.

It would be oil-rich Saudi Arabia's first such incident since an unemployed man set himself on fire in Tunisia last month protesting the economy and sparking riots which brought down the government.

Since that time there have been a wave of copycat immolations across the region, though with few fatalities.

Civil defense spokesman Capt. Yahia al-Qahtani said in a statement carried by Saudi newspapers that the man, in his sixties, set himself on fire Friday and died in the hospital.

No name or motive was given.

Saudi Grand Mufti Sheik Abdel Aziz Al Sheikh on Thursday condemned suicide even in response to harsh living conditions.

In Egypt, a 25-year-old unemployed man died in a hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, while three others in Cairo also attempted to set themselves on fire, but survived.

Protesters in Mauritania and Algeria have also set themselves alight in apparent attempts to copy Tunisian Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, whose self-immolation helped inspire the protests that toppled Tunisia's authoritarian president.

These incidents, though isolated, reflect the growing despair among much of the Arab public which has no real means of expressing its dissatisfaction. They are deeply symbolic means of protest in a region that has little or no tolerance for dissent.

Sudanese man 'sets himself ablaze'
(AFP) – 8 hours ago

KHARTOUM — A 25-year-old Sudanese man was being treated in hospital for second-degree burns, medics said on Saturday, in the latest instance of self-immolation in the Arab world.

Al-Amin Musa Al-Amin, a labourer from Darfur, poured petrol over himself shortly after Friday prayers and lit it as he stood in Suq al-Shaabi, a market in Omdurman, Khartoum's twin city, eye-witnesses told AFP.

They could not speculate on the man's motive.

The man was rushed to Omdurman hospital's intensive care unit, medical officials said.

The Sudanese Media Centre, which is close to the country's intelligence services, had earlier quoted one of Musa's relative as saying he had been drunk when he torched himself.

But the hospital medics said there was no trace of alcohol in his body.

Several young men in Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania have set themselves ablaze since the signature protest of a Tunisian graduate whose action in December triggered a revolt that ousted Tunisia's veteran president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Widespread economic and political discontent in north Sudan, where the security forces exert tight control, has led to sporadic protests in recent weeks.

Police and students clashed for two days in Gezira, a large swathe of land south of Khartoum, in student protests against the tough austerity measures the government pushed through on January 5 in response to escalating import costs.

On Wednesday, armed police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Sudanese activists demonstrating for the release of Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, who was detained 48 hours earlier after calling for a Tunisia-style uprising.

North Sudan's economic woes -- skyrocketting food prices, weak state finances and large external debts -- have been exacerbated by political uncertainty, linked to last week's landmark referendum on independence for the south, where most of the country's oil is pumped from.

The final results of the plebiscite are set to deliver a landslide vote for separation.

Sudanese youths call for peaceful government overthrow


Fri, Jan 14 2011
Students protest in Sudan's north over price rises
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KHARTOUM | Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:04am EST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Young people in Sudan, the last Arab state to experience a successful popular uprising, are using social networking sites to rally support for their plan to topple the government through peaceful protests.

Encouraged by weeks of Tunisian demonstrations which ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Friday, Sudanese are harking back to the popular uprising in 1985 which overthrew President Jaafar Nimeiri after 16 years of harsh rule.

Fresh from this week's demonstrations against rising prices, young Sudanese are circulating calls on Facebook, Sudanese websites and by text message calling on families to stand outside their houses and light a candle for 30 minutes at 7 p.m. (11 a.m. EST) every day -- starting on Saturday.

"People will stand for one day, two, three, seven - soon it will reach the media , then it will hit the streets and topple this tyrant," Wail Jabir wrote on Facebook, where more than 400 people have already signed up for the protest.

"This is just a beginning," another comment said.

Students demonstrating against rising food and petrol prices clashed with police on Wednesday and Thursday in three towns in the mostly Arab north, including Khartoum.

The Khartoum government is grappling with a deep economic crisis at the same time as it faces the near-certainty that South Sudan, which produces 75 percent of the country's oil, will secede when results of a referendum are announced.

Foreign exchange shortages have forced Sudan to cut subsidies on petroleum products and sugar, a strategic commodity, to devalue the currency and restrict imports.

Khartoum deployed 17,500 police in north Sudan for the southern independence referendum which ends on Saturday. The opposition says the aim was to crack down on dissent rather than secure polling booths, as few southerners voted in the north.

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is wanted for war crimes and genocide in the western Darfur region by the International Criminal Court, the only sitting head of state indicted by the court, and even some close allies have refused to let him visit. Bashir denies the allegations.

Sudan's 1985 uprising began with popular protests by students and spread into a general strike, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets.

Eventually the military leadership turned against Nimeiri and joined the protesters, recalls lawyer Omer Abdelaati, who gave the speech calling for the general strike in 1985.

"It was just like this," he said, pointing to footage of Tunisia on the news. "The schools, universities, banks, everything closed, Khartoum was paralyzed -- everyone was on the streets in Khartoum and in the regions," he said.

A joint civilian and military transitional government then ruled for one year before holding Sudan's last democratic elections in 1986.

Sudan as well. Students protest in north Sudan over price hikes
Students clashed with police in two northern Sudanese cities in a rare public protest against price rises, as the oil-producing south is voting on secession, opposition officials and witnesses saidReuters, Thursday 13 Jan 2011
Print Send Students held protests in the universities of Khartoum and Gezira in the north's agricultural heartland on Wednesday against proposed cuts in subsidies in petroleum products and sugar, a strategic commodity in Sudan.

The cuts come at a politically sensitive time for the government of President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who stands to lose control over the south in the referendum, agreed as part of a 2005 deal to end a north-south civil war.
Other prices have also risen due to a surge in global food prices and a devaluation in the local currency.
In Khartoum University, police beat dozens of students demonstrating against the price rises, with five slightly injured and an unknown number arrested, one student said.
"The security forces were already there with a very, very heavy presence," said journalism student Al-Fadil Ali.
"They fear this could lead to revolution."
Sheza Osman Omer from the opposition Democratic Unionist Party in Gezira said several people were injured in clashes between police and students protesting on the streets.
She said police beat them with canes and arrested three female students. The police spokesman was not immediately available to comment on the reports
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/3804.aspx

Inside the lion temple in Northern Sudan, and the temple of horus in upper egypt closer to sudan.

Different highlight of the musawarrat es sufra structure, mainly showing the columns, which is classically African in origin and detail.

Christian painting of the bishop Marianos of faras with the virgin mary of christ is dated 9th or 10 century AD. This was the christian kingdom of faras northern sudan.

The two statues above of the bird like god horus and the statue of women body with the head and the other two statues behind her, is house in the National Museum of Khartoum northern sudan.

Statuary found at the temple at Jebal barkal and now housed in the museum of Khartoum

Statue of the nile valley deity Horus.

PhysicsMHD:

GREAT thread. I'm going to lift a few pictures from here.

I have seen your trend and i think it is a very good one, and the reason i brought to trend back is for you to take over, and you obviously have a passion for African History, i will be going back to Northern Sudan and Egypt for a long time, and i probably be to busy to post. However i probably stop by here from time to time to see what you have posted.

Semna Temple in Northern Sudan, it was dedicated to the god Dedwen.