♦ Sudan: This week’s news in brief ♦
DABANGA SUDAN – May 8, 2023 A compact digest of the past week’s most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan. Subscribe to...
Fatwa against theft amidst increased plundering in Sudan
OMDURMAN / KHARTOUM - May 8, 2023 The Ansar Affairs Authority in Omdurman has issued a fatwa against theft and...
Sudanese doctors face threats and repression as death toll mounts
Khartoum - May 8, 2023 The number of civilians who died since the beginning of the clashes between the Sudanese...
Sudan Finance Minister: ‘Arrangements underway to pay civil servant salaries’
WAD MADANI – The Sudanese Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and leader of the Justice and Equality Movement, Jibril...
Sudan activists ‘reject both warlords, call for participation in peace talks’
KHARTOUM - While representatives of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commanded by Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan and the paramilitary...
Sudan’s embattled SAF and RSF in Jeddah for ‘pre-negotiation talks’ on humanitarian truce
JEDDAH – Representatives of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), whose bloody clashes across...
Provision shortages worsen crisis in Khartoum and Kordofan
KHARTOUM / KORDOFAN – People in Khartoum and Kordofan suffer from water and electricity outages, scarcity of food, and rising...
‘Human tragedy’ as Sudan Umrah pilgrims stuck in Saudi port
JEDDAH – Sudanese nationals who participated in the Umrah pilgrimage during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, that ended with...
Sudan conflict: President Biden enables new US sanctions
WASHINGTON D.C. – US President Joe Biden has called the violence in Sudan a ‘tragedy’, and signed an executive order...
Cautious calm in West Darfur capital after tribal truce
EL GENEINA - A truce was signed between tribal parties in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on Tuesday,...
UN Secretary-General: ‘Khartoum is in turmoil, Darfur is burning once again’
NAIROBI / GENEVA / KHARTOUM / PORT SUDAN / EL GENEINA - The UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his “serious...
Calls for targeted economic sanctions on Sudan’s warring generals
DABANGA SUDAN - As the international community scrambles to limit the humanitarian disaster created by the fighting that erupted on...
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