The United Nations has announced that 650,000 persons have been affected by the floods in Sudan, adding that the situation will get worse in the coming days. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of [ More … ]
Security and Defence Council of Sudan has declared a national state of emergency for three months because of floods that have killed 99 people this year. The council also designated Sudan a natural disaster zone, [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arrived in Sudan Tuesday on a one-day visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. SUNA said Ahmed was received at Khartoum airport by his [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan today, Tuesday, as part of a regional tour to urge Arab states to normalize ties with Israel despite widespread opposition. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Sudan on [ More … ]
Egypt and Sudan suspended talks with Ethiopia after it proposed linking a deal on its newly constructed reservoir and giant hydroelectric dam to a broader agreement about the Blue Nile waters that would replace a [ More … ]
The move comes as the latest round of talks between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the contentious dam ended with no agreement. Egypt’s request for urgent intervention by the UN Security Council, sources said Ethiopia [ More … ]
A cross-border attack by an Ethiopian militia has exacerbated a long-established competition over resources Diplomatic efforts to diffuse a security crisis on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia have been ongoing, but the situation on [ More … ]
Sudan army spokesman says fighting over past three days has left at least two people dead and nine wounded. Sudanese general says a chance given for diplomacy before eruption of possible all-out war with Ethiopia! [ More … ]
The US and Sudan have reached a typical understanding on the “contours” of a future bilateral claims settlement linked to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. State [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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