{"id":182799,"date":"2015-06-01T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/villagers-affected-by-merowe-dam-northern-sudan-call-for-their-rights\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:33:00","slug":"villagers-affected-by-merowe-dam-northern-sudan-call-for-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/villagers-affected-by-merowe-dam-northern-sudan-call-for-their-rights","title":{"rendered":"Villagers affected by Merowe Dam, northern Sudan, call for their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people of villages affected by the construction of Merowe Dam in northern Sudan have called for a conference to discuss the failure to recover their legitimate rights.<\/p>\n<p>An activist told Radio Dabanga that the call for the conference, to be held in the area of Amri, &ldquo;comes after several protests and the submission of numerous memorandums, which proved to be ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;None of the agreements regarding the affected people have been implemented,&rdquo; he stressed. &ldquo;The people are very angry and frustrated, as all their attempts to obtain their legitimate rights, already before the official launch of the dam in 2010, have failed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the authorities moved thousands of people from the area of the dam to newly constructed villages in Amri, Rive Nile state. 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They constitute 28 percent of the total population affected by the building of the Merowe Dam.<br \/>\nThe displaced villagers complain about the lack of services, and the failure of the agricultural projects in the area of Amri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Villagers affected by Merowe Dam, northern Sudan, call for their rights - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/villagers-affected-by-merowe-dam-northern-sudan-call-for-their-rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Villagers affected by Merowe Dam, northern Sudan, call for their rights - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The people of villages affected by the construction of Merowe Dam in northern Sudan have called for a conference to discuss the failure to recover their legitimate rights. 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