Abdul Mohammed
Abdul Gadir Mohammed is Chairman of InterAfrica Group, the regional center for dialogue on humanitarianism, development, peace and security for the Horn of Africa. Over the last twenty-five years he has worked in Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya for, among others, the Sudan Council of Churches, the African Union, and UNICEF, and has been a tireless advocate for the peoples of the Horn to find means of realizing their rights and resolving their differences within a framework of pluralism and diversity. Abdul is currently acting head of Political Affairs for UNAMID, the hybrid African Union-UN operation in Darfur. Abdul writes this column in a personal capacity and the views expressed are his alone and do not reflect any position or opinion of the UN or AU.
Posts by Abdul Mohammed:
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Around the world, America’s presidential election caught the imagination of young people. Nowhere was that more true than here in Darfur. In the displaced camps, people huddled around transistor radios as the election results came in during the pre-dawn hours. Barack Obama’s victory speech, received here after daybreak on November 5, was one of those rare Mandela moments — a jubilant triumph over injustice, a day marked in history when the impossible seems suddenly possible.
Read the rest of What Barack Obama means to young Africans.
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