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[image: email]Email<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=enviar_email_articulo&id_article=49972> [image: print]Print<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprimable&id_article=49972> [image: pdf]Save<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=spipdf&spipdf=spipdf_article&id_article=49972&nom_fichier=article_49972> [image: separation] [image: increase] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49972#> [image: decrease] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49972#> [image: separation] [image: separation] ------------------------------ February 15, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - A group of youths from the Manaseer area, 350 km (220 miles) north of the capital Khartoum, threatened to thwart a planned visit by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir scheduled for next month. *Chinese workers stand in front of the Merowe Dam, a controversial Nile River project 220 miles north of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan (AFP)* The group took to social networking sites to mobilize against Bashir's visit to the region with a number of Manaseer elders warning against receiving the president and called for boycotting the visit. They justified the campaign by what they called the government's backpedaling on earlier pledges to establish six resettlement projects that were agreed upon in 2006 between the Executive Committee that represented those impacted by the Chinese-built Merowe dam and Nahr al-Neel state government. They also mentioned the non-implementation of health, education , electricity, water and road projects in the region. The group expressed their rejection of the state government's attempt to market alternatives to what was agreed upon previously on resettlement projects . The state governor Lt. Gen. Hadi Abdullah on Saturday said that the issue of compensations to those displaced by the dam will be put to rest with the inauguration of a number of development projects, services, facilities and new houses during Bashir's visit. The construction of Merowe dam on the Fourth cataract of the River Nile, 350 kilometers north of Khartoum, has displaced more than 100,000 local persons belonging to three riverian communities, Al Hamdab, Amri and al-Manaseer. There have been several clashes between the villagers and Sudanese police over the last few years. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oq7tnUgF2MaY-7CU0Y8hpFqoVbaiytJQ2vPC9S41hEHLQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
