Emmanuel Jal - Mr President -(Official Video)

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

By Emmanuel Jal

New single 18 Aug 2023 148,725 views

Emmanuel Jal feat. Angel Atieno - Mr President -(Official Video)

A letter to the president to bring the attention of their citizens to their mind. 

Artists: Emmanuel Jal feat. Angel Atieno 

Producer: Jesse Bukindu

Video Director: Nezzoh Montana

Actresses: Shammalee, Princess Nyadollar, Monica Awadhia, Alyce Shamala. 

Lyrics 

Intro

ohwa ohwa

A kingdom not united, shall be conquered and divided 

Conquered, divided

Enslaved, exploited 

Support hook

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over.

Go leader us go say so

Let truth take over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose 

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

- 

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo 

Chorus

Would you step for our nation - Mr President ?

Would you step for education - Mr President?

Would you step up for the farmers, for police and the army?

Would you step for up for the children for women and the veterans - Mr President?

Support hook

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over.

Go leader us go say so

Let truth say over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo

Would you step for education - Mr President?

Verse 1

Nation for the people

For the people by the people

United overcoming, overcoming

Overcoming terror evil

Oh I see little yellow sunrise come

Rain fall oh

Mighty state something so

Mah shallah 

- Mashallah Mashallah I see things grow 

beautiful people letting hate go

beautiful people letting hate go

letting hate go.

- Mashallah Mashallah I see things grow 

beautiful people letting hate go

beautiful people letting hate go

letting hate go.

 

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over

Go leader us go say so

Let truth say over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose 

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo

Bridge

Tara Tarara tararah

What about your dream Kila Mtu go some

What would you do for the masses 

coz soul feel how does that sound.

Teth loi Teth loi mah diid tethloi 

Teth loi Macho Tethloi 

Teth loi Chuol midiid Teth lois

Translation of bridge - 

Joy joy fullness joy fullness.

Joy for the eye  Joyfullness

Joy big Chuol Joyfullness.

Chorus 

Would you step for up for the teachers - Mr President ?

Step for the nurses  - Mr President?

Would you step up for our freedom and the healthcare betterment?

Would you step for up for the vision and the purpose of our nation?

Bridge

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Source:  YouTube 

SONG

Mr President (Single)

ARTIST

Emmanuel Jal

ALBUM

Mr President

LICENSES

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https://youtu.be/ANhj5HTN04g

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Sudan Climate Change: Root causes of Darfur conflict

NOTE from Sudan Watch Editor: Taking time out to search Sudan Watch's archives and collate various posts from the past 20 years. They are taking hours to find and prepare for a series of posts focussing on peace and the alleviation of poverty and extreme poverty in Sudan and South Sudan.

To start, here is an excerpt from a post published July 14, 2006 entitled:

'The root causes of the Darfur conflict: A struggle over controlling an environment that can no longer support all the people who must live on it'

DARFUR IN THE EYES OF A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER

Environmentalist Wangari Maathai who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize stated to The Washington Post on May 12, 2005 that:

"Darfur is an example of a situation where a dire scarcity of natural resources is manipulated by politicians for their own ambition. To outsiders, the conflict is seen as tribal warfare. At its roots, though, it is a struggle over controlling an environment that can no longer support all the people who must live on it. You must not deal only with the symptoms you have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehablitation and empowering people to do things for themselves. What is done for the people without involving them can not be sustained."

Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/root-causes-of-darfur-conflict.html

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Sudan and South Sudan: Peace and Climate Change

• The peace needs to be rewritten to include provisions for all tribes to address what they were fighting over to begin with. 
• Famine relief needs to be supported by all western world countries, especially those who are the largest contributors to global warming. 
• The conflict in Sudan's arid west can be traced to severe drought and population growth in the 1980s that sparked a struggle between settled farmers and pastoralists.
• In Darfur there is a massive ecological and demographic challenge exacerbated by climate change.
• There's not a chance in the world for Darfur to be peaceful unless a solution is found to water stress. 

Read more in these two posts from Sudan Watch archive 2006:

Climate Change and Darfur 

Note this gem, by an insightful blogger at dishyduds blogspot re "Climate Change and Darfur":

"I now believe that the United States has a moral obligation to alleviate the struggles in Africa. It is our responsibility because we are the largest contributors to the root of the problem. I no longer support a UN military presence. Peace cannot be forced, and military action would only act as a band-aid on a seeping infected wound. The root cause needs to be addressed and the United States needs to lead as we had a hand in creating the problem. The peace needs to be rewritten to include provisions for all tribes to address what they were fighting over to begin with. Famine relief needs to be supported by all western world countries, especially those who are the largest contributors to global warming." 

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Related report

Sudan Watch - July 17, 2006 

Darfur Peace Must Address Water Crisis: Economist - excerpt:

The conflict in Sudan's arid west is often attributed to political and ethnic grievances, Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, told a climate change conference.

But he said its origins can be traced to severe drought and population growth in the 1980s that sparked a struggle between settled farmers and pastoralists.

"(In Darfur) we need to understand that, at the core, there is a massive ecological and demographic challenge exacerbated by climate change," Sachs said.

"I would say there's not a chance in the world for Darfur to be peaceful unless a solution is found to water stress." 

Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/darfur-peace-must-address-water-crisis.html

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War and hunger could destroy Sudan -UN aid chief

Statement by UN aid chief Martin Griffiths
Published by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - unocha.org
Dated Friday 25 August 2023 - here is a full copy:

War and hunger could destroy Sudan - Statement by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator [EN/AR]

(New York, 25 August 2023): The war in Sudan is fueling a humanitarian emergency of epic proportions. This viral conflict – and the hunger, disease and displacement left in its wake – now threatens to consume the entire country.

The intense fighting that has ravaged the capital Khartoum and Darfur since mid-April has spread to Kordofan. In South Kordofan’s capital, Kadugli, food stocks have been fully depleted, as clashes and road blockages prevent aid workers from reaching the hungry. In West Kordofan’s capital, El Fula, humanitarian offices have been ransacked and supplies looted. I am also extremely worried about the safety of civilians in Al Jazira State, as the conflict moves closer to Sudan’s breadbasket.

The longer the fighting continues, the more devastating its impact. Some places have already run out of food. Hundreds of thousands of children are severely malnourished and at imminent risk of death if left untreated.

Vector-borne diseases are spreading, posing a lethal risk, especially to those already weakened by malnutrition. Cases of measles, malaria, whooping cough, dengue fever, and acute watery diarrhoea are being reported across the country. Most people have no access to medical treatment. The conflict has decimated the health care sector, with most hospitals out of service.

Millions of people have been displaced inside Sudan. Nearly one million others have fled across its borders. As more refugees arrive in neighbouring countries, host communities are struggling. A protracted conflict in Sudan could tip the entire region into a humanitarian catastrophe.

A long conflict will almost certainly lead to a lost generation of children as millions miss out on education, endure trauma, and bear the physical and psychological scars of war. Reports that some children in Sudan are being used in the fighting are deeply disturbing.

It is well past time for all those fighting in this conflict to put the people of Sudan above the pursuit of power or resources. Humanity must prevail. Civilians need life-saving assistance now; humanitarians need access and funding to deliver it. The international community needs to respond with the urgency this crisis deserves.

25 August 2023

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View original: https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/sudan/war-and-hunger-could-destroy-sudan-statement-martin-griffiths-under-secretary-general-humanitarian-affairs-and-emergency-relief-coordinator-enar

Martin Griffiths is a British diplomat who currently serves as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations. -Wikipedia

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