State television says the prime minister is safe after a blast in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt Monday after a blast went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum. [ More … ]
Ethiopia will skip the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks this week on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan, the country’s water ministry announced Wednesday, reported The Associated Press. The U.S.-sponsored trilateral talks [ More … ]
Pompeo says it could take “months” to resolve a dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday confirmed an ongoing stalemate over Ethiopia’s dam project on the River [ More … ]
For the first time, an Israeli plane has flown through the Sudanese airspace, Ynet News reported Sunday. The plane had first taken off last Monday from Israel’s Tel Aviv for Congo’s capital city of Kinshasa, [ More … ]
Ethiopian officials announced on Friday that negotiations between them and Sudan and Egypt that this past week in Washington ended without a final agreement on the longstanding Nile River dispute. Officials from the three countries [ More … ]
Scores of Sudanese people yesterday protested outside the government’s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, after revelations that a secret meeting was held between Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and [ More … ]
Egypt has blamed Ethiopia for the failure of the latest round of talks on the construction of a controversial Nile dam, a critical issue for Cairo as it seeks to protect its main source of [ More … ]
One year after protests broke out in Sudan over soaring bread prices, celebrations are planned across the country today to mark the uprising that brought down Omar Al-Bashir. A year ago, on 19 December 2018, [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed issues warning over Renaissance Dam PM Abiy said his country could ready millions if there is a need to go to war over the dam project opposed by Egypt. Ethiopia‘s prime minister [ More … ]
Sudan’s PM Hamdok says getting off US terror list and cutting military budget will revive country’s faltering economy. Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said that he has talked to US officials about removing Sudan from [ More … ]
The opposition and military council met at a ceremony on the Nile to sign ‘constitutional declaration’ Sudan’s main opposition coalition and the ruling military council on Saturday signed a landmark “constitutional declaration” paving the way [ More … ]
The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced the return of Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati from a three-day overseas tour to Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss the latest developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [ More … ]
Four school children among five shot dead by security forces during rally against rising costs, Sudan opposition groups say. At least five protesters, including four high school students, have been shot dead after security forces [ More … ]
Members of the NCP and Islamic Movement are being swept up in an arrest campaign, despite once being part of the same regime as the generals now in charge Sudanese Islamists are under intense pressure, [ More … ]
The two sides initialled a document called the ‘Political Declaration’ after intense talks through the night Sudan’s opposition coalition and ruling generals signed an agreement on Wednesday intended to pave the pay to a power-sharing [ More … ]
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