♦ Sudan: This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact digest of the past week's most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan. Subscribe to receive this digest weekly in your...
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence in Sudan
Activities have been taking place in Sudan as part of the annual international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence...
Women and human rights groups protest regional violence in Sudan
69 women and human rights groups organised a protest sit-in in front of the buildings of the United Nations High...
ACJPS: Death sentence of young Sudanese woman a human rights violation
On Friday, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) published a statement condemning the sentencing to death by...
Netherlands Ambassador to Sudan hails ‘fruitful and constructive’ meeting with TSC member El Hadi Idris
Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), El Hadi Idris, met at the Ambassador of Kingdom of the Netherlands to...
Sudanese women present gender-responsive constitutional vision
After a two-week-long workshop series organised by the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) with the support of...
North Darfur student savagely raped and murdered
A young woman was brutally raped and murdered in the North Darfur capital of El Fasher on Monday, as she...
Women march in Sudan capital to protest against harassment
A group of young women organised a march in Khartoum on Wednesday, to protest harassment in general and by their...
Armed men rape nurse at gunpoint and attack teachers in South Kordofan
Three armed raped a nurse at gunpoint and assaulted teachers, after storming a clinic in the Abbasiya locality in South...
Two children raped in Sudan’s South Kordofan
Two separate complaints of rape of minors have been lodged with police in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, after a...
Global human rights award for Sudan women’s activist
Sudanese women’s rights activist, and head of the ‘No to Oppression of Women’ initiative (NWO), Amira Osman, has been named...
Junta forces disperse sit-in at Sudan prison
A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum, was broken-up by government forces on Saturday evening,...
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