Sudanese Politicians to expand Juba, Sudan's SSPP

January 14, 2008, 12:00 AM EST

South Sudan's media-driven awareness organization "The Sudan Sensitization Peace Project" is being expanded to include a campaign in the United States.

Johannesburg, GAC (FV Newswire) - In what some see as laying the ground work for a 2011 secession by the South Sudanese, one of the South Army's most powerful sister organizations, Juba-based "Sudan Sensitization Peace Project" (THE SSPP) is preparing to launch a new public relations campaign in the United States in fall 2008.

The campaign will be directed at African-Americans, as the South Sudanese and Darfur are increasingly concerned by the lack of information that Western blacks have regarding the borderlands of Afro-Arabic nations like Sudan and Mauritania.

According to his office in Juba, Sudan, the President and Founder of the SSPP, BF Bankie, has appointed SPLM commander and Darfur politian Yahya Osman to be President of the New York City branch of the SSPP.

Yahya Osman is also Vice President of the Darfur Rehabilitation Project as well as Chairman of Foreign Officers.

One plan for implementing the American Branch of the SSPP is to have legendary entertainer and politician Harry Belafonte speak on the peace organization's behalf at a fundraising event in June at Professor Dani Nabudere's Marcus Garvey Pan-African Institute in Mbale, Uganda. The event is already booked.

President Bankie also reports that famed African scholar and writer Garba Diallo of Denmark has been approached about possibly heading a branch in Denmark and that controversial novelist Kola Boof, a former SPLA member and former mistress of Osama Bin Laden, has agreed to take the position of National Chairwoman of the U.S. branch of the SSPP.

Though many have questioned the appointing of such a polarizing figure as Kola Boof, officials of the SSPP say that Boof's recent contact with Winnie Mandela and her defense of the SPLM to officials of South Africa's ANC, coupled with the Global African Congress recommending her, makes her a notable entity. Though a Sudanese diplomat from Khartoum recently accused Boof of being legally married to Bin Laden, she and the SSPP dispute such allegations as "lies". Among Boof's first duties for the organization will be to oversee the establishment of an official website.

"It's going to be a huge kick-off in America during 2008", reported Miguel Lorne, the President of the Jamaican branch of the SSPP.

Planning to open at a September event rally in Manhattan, President Bankie and the SSPP also hope to attract actor and long time supporter Danny Glover, and activists Joe Madison, Munta Matsimela, Miguel Lorne and Maria Sliwa.

The SSPP was founded by BF Bankie in 2002 and as a "peace and information historical society" to coincide with the South army's SPLA movement.

Officials of the SSPP can be reached in Juba, Sudan by email:

info@thesspp.org

Website
The SSPP Official Website