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 … ]
An Israeli research centre says Russia joined the supporters for the military council in Sudan Russia has emerged Saudi Arabia’s and United Arab Emirates’s silent partner in assisting the Sudanese military’ According to it, Russians [ More … ]
Sudan Two sides agree to establish ‘a sovereign council’ to be run on rotation, an AU mediator announces. Sudan‘s ruling generals and a coalition of protest and opposition groups have reached an agreement to share power [ More … ]
Israel has been rocked by widespread demonstrations decrying the fatal shooting of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager at the hands of an off-duty police officer. Protests erupted after Solomon Teka, 18, who was unarmed, was shot by [ More … ]
A Canadian lobbying firm has signed a US$6-million deal to seek government funds and diplomatic recognition for a notorious Sudanese military leader whose forces have been accused of massacring protesters in Khartoum, U.S. documents show, [ More … ]
In a recent Foreign Policy article former Minister of Investment Yehia Hamed forecast that Egypt will soon be bankrupt if it continues in the same vein. External debt has increased fivefold in the last half [ More … ]
Much of the world is wondering who is really running the show in Sudan now that its president of three decades has been ousted. It’s certainly not the protesters being crushed by the military as [ More … ]
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