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 … ]
Eight years after the Arab Spring transfixed the world, the Middle East has once again lit up with protest. In April, popular movements in Algeria and Sudan forced the ouster of two long-serving autocrats: Algerian [ More … ]
Doctors’ committee says two people killed in clashes in the capital, while two others died in its twin city of Omdurman One week after scores died in a crackdown on Sudanese protesters demanding civilian rule, [ More … ]
Forty bodies have been pulled from the River Nile in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, opposition activists said on Wednesday. Doctors linked to the opposition said the bodies were [ More … ]
Five people reported dead amid gunfire as security forces attempt to break up protest site outside defense ministry Sudanese security forces entered the site of a sit-in in central Khartoum early on Monday amid gunfire, witnesses [ More … ]
Negotiations over political transition put on ice as violence flares in Sudan, leaving several demonstrators wounded. At least 14 people have been wounded, some from gunfire, when Sudanese forces tried to remove demonstrators from central [ More … ]
The ousting of former Sudan president, Omar Al-Bashir, has left various factions within the military battling for control of the state. Since the military ouster of Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, early on Thursday, 11 April, after three [ More … ]
Egypt has demanded from the transitional military council in Sudan to hand over Muslim Brotherhood leaders, end border dispute on Halaa’ib and Shalatin triangle, and suspend Suakin agreement with Turkey. Egypt demanded that the transitional [ More … ]
Army rulers in Sudan have agreed to form a joint civilian-military council following pressure from protesters. Sudanese protesters Sunday welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers who agreed to form a joint civilian-military council, [ More … ]
Amid continuing pressure to transfer power to a civilian government, Sudanese protesters are rejecting support from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to the military regime. With Sudan in turmoil following the ouster of longtime President [ More … ]
AFTER THREE DECADES in power, Sudan’s Omar-al-Bashir was ousted following months of protests by the Sudanese. Speaking on State television 2 days ago, Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced Bashir had been removed from power and [ More … ]
In the space of little more than a week, two long-ruling autocrats in the Arab world succumbed to people power. First, it was Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the wheelchair-bound figurehead of an entrenched regime who [ More … ]
Addressing nation, Al-Bashir calls on parliament to delay proposed constitutional amendments, declares the state of emergency Reported by Mohmed Amin in Anadolu Agency Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the state and federal governments on Friday, [ More … ]
The protesters were reportedly calling for women arrested during ongoing demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir’s rule to be released. “We are fighters, we will complete our mission,” witnesses told AFP the crowd chanted, as women [ More … ]
The large-scale and wide geographic spread of protests in Sudan over the past few weeks pose a greater threat to the regime of President Omar Al-Bashir than ever before in his thirty-year grip on power. [ More … ]
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