Last night I went to a Sudanese concert beautiful, beautiful music... All I want to do is sit down and listen to Sudanese music and just drink lemon juice!!! Anyway I guess that would be the death of my intellectual growth and understanding. Apart from wearing the cloak of modesty today, I enjoyed being with Meghan, Catherine, Sharmarke and Aiman. Aiman loves politics and he is so concerned about the politics of Sudan and how much past governments have done nothing for Sudan, and Bashir has done so much. His analysis is that, Bashir has done a bad thing by pushing America away and this is in itself not right because Sudan will not develop without America and that the government has to start focusing on the welfare of it's nationals. I agree with him on the aspect of caring for the Nationals, I think every state is formed under those auspices and not just for its own selfish ends. My belief though is that most countries today can do without America's aid, we depend on America so much as though it is the mother of wealth, yet America depends on the rest of the world as well in a rather salient way. Maybe we are just a universe of interdependency, but my argument would be that, Sudan maximize its oil wealth by using the help of China , Japan and other African countries, it can start being the provider of oil to Africa and and in that way Africa can start to have interdependence within its states. Now I have bigger issues with the IDP convention, I downloaded it a while ago and just read it yesterday, why on earth do African Nations need an IDP convention, IDPs are internally Displaced people, within the confines of a state, to create a convention for them means in my view to start going towards the direction of dividing up populations and creating categories in a nation. As IDPs, they are still citizens and should be protected by the state. States should work within their borders to create policies that help IDPs resettle in areas where the situation is viable for them. To call African countries to a meeting to create a convention, sounds ridiculous to me. Countries have already ratified conventions that they do not adhere to many times. Why the heck do we have to continue making more laws before we can even grasp what we already have going? IDs are another thing that bothers me about Uganda. Am not sure Uganda even knows why they want a national ID, the excuse is 'it has been so busy to claim Ugandan citizenship.' My response, so what? So what if people become Ugandan national easily- okay maybe not that extreme but I believe like someone once said less governing is better. I cant understand why spend so much money on establishing an ID system when the Karimojongs and the people in the North are still suffering with no place to settle and in need to resources to start life afresh. Beats, beats my understanding