The National Movement for Eastern Sudan (the NMES) is not, an essential way, a movement without history or primary past origins.  It is, that is to say, conceptually and practically connected with a long legacy of inequality and injustice, on the part of the elites and socio-economic coalitions of interest and greed that ruled our country- The Sudan- since its independence on January 1956, and of vicious social and political inadequacy and inefficiency, on the side of variably all of the main traditional social and political opposition movements that have claimed to set out to change that very chronic conditions of inadequacy and injustice.

The connection in question has been incarnated in the many acts and stands of political dissent within the main Sudanese traditional political organizations, whether they were in power or in opposition.  And, on view of the East of The Sudan, that has been manifested in successive collective protesting actions against the limited political visions (or scopes), egotistic ambitions and poor practices with which particularly the political movements that were historically associated with the East of the Sudan, namely and mainly the Beja Conference and the Democratic Unionist Party, often dealt with the main living issues of the Beja and the rest of the prominent peoples in the region. 

Out of that positive, and necessary, heritage of dissention and legitimate dissatisfaction the NMES was then effectively born, as a nationally-oriented and organized movement with an alternative mandate and broader political vision, on February 2005.  And its membership, since the early days of its emergence, was, accordingly, quite wide in spectrum and solidly based inside the home country and amongst many of the former leaders and activists who, because of the legacy of inequality and injustice and political inadequacy and inefficiency we have already mentioned, had eventually joined- and are still continuously joining- the new and alternative movement: the NMES.  Beside those the NMES was, since its advent as a Sudanese political movement with an alternative programme and mandate, also continuously being strengthened- and it is still continuously being strengthened- by the wide-range variety of peoples from the major ethnicities of the East of The Sudan who have given, and are still giving, it substantial ground support and power within the very land and amidst the very peoples of Eastern Sudan.  Clearly a movement with such a background, and such a description, could not be easily waived away as just a small Eastern Sudanese new political movement that has been formed abroad (i.e., in London) only by a handful of disgruntled intellectuals and which has no basic, or real, roots inland and on the ground. 

As to the future prospectus of the NMES, the movement has, just recently, initiated a new phase in its political endeavour with which its higher joint leadership had invested its several already established offices inside The Sudan with further authority and independence, something which will eventually be reflected in more flexibility and mobility, practicality and efficiency, in its overall political work, particularly inside the Eastern region of the country.  The initial effects of this new phase have already beginning to be shown in the form of certain fruitful political meetings and consultations, inside The Sudan, with several of the representatives of the living social and political powers in the Sudanese socio-political scene, including respected national personalities and Eastern Sudanese tribal chiefs. And on another, yet relevant, side there are also many disaffected youth from all of the ethnicities of the East of The Sudan who are now continuously joining the NMES not merely because of their grievances against both of the Sudanese political regime and the Sudanese traditional political parties and organizations, the Beja Conference included, but basically for its alternative vision and political practice with which they are now actively engaged.

Finally we say that to have a wider perspective on the NMES, its roots, present activities and future prospectus, the viewers of this website would benefit further from following the daily pulse of all of what we have hereby referred to in our Arabic section.