1)         Chairperson of the newly established Greater Horn Horizon Forum, an initiative started by the

UNESCO and now owned by intellectuals from the Horn of Africa hosted by the Government         of the Republic of Djibouti(2007 to Date)

 

1)         Member of the MEAWARDS Advisory Committee, Population Council, Cairo office. (1996).

2)         Member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1988 –     ).

3)         Member of Sudan Studies Association U.S.A. (1987-   )

4)                  Member of the Arab Sociological Association (1987 – ).

5)         Member of the Advisory Committee for ISNAR on a Rural social Science Programme for Africa (June 1981 – 1984). Chairman form June 1982.

6)         Member of the Advisory Committee on the Rahad Research Programme, FORD Foundation and the Rahad Corporation, (1981-83).

7)         Member of Executive Committee of the Organization of the Social Science in the Arab countries (1976-1978).

8)                  Editor of the Sudan Journal Development Research, Published by the Economic and Social Research Council, National Council for Research, Sudan, First issue Feb. 1977.

9)                  Member of the International Congress of Anthropological Science (one of the Vice-Presidents for 1973 Conference in Chicago).

9)         Associate Member of Current Anthropology.

10)       Associate member of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Association.

11)       One of the Advisory editors of the Journal abstracts in Anthropology, published by Baywood Publishing Company, New York, U.S.A.

12)       On the editorial Board of the Journal “Dialectical Anthropology”.

13)       Member of the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa and presently Executive Secretary.

14)       Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Nomadic People” published by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Science: Commission on Nomadic Peoples.

15)       Member of the Standing Committee for the International Social Science Comparative Research Program on Poverty (CROP).

16)       Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal “Development and Change” ISS, the Hague, The Netherlands.

17)       Member of the International Advisory Board of “Ethnos: The Journal of Anthropology”, Stockholm, Sweden.

18)       Member of the Editorial Board of the “Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review”, OSSREA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.