Sudan’s Blue Nile: Authorities launch investigation into ‘mass prescription drug poisoning’
ED DAMAZIN - Authorities in the Blue Nile region launched an investigation to ascertain how at least 60 cases of...
Dengue fever in Sudan: two dead, at least 169 confirmed cases in Khartoum and El Gedaref
KHARTOUM / EL GEDAREF - Sudan’s Federal Minister of Health, Dr Haisam Ibrahim, announced yesterday that dengue fever had emerged...
Protests against gold mining continue in Sudan Red Sea state
DORDEIB - The Port Sudan-Kassala highway near Dordeib in Red Sea state remained closed yesterday after protestors decided to extend their...
Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker: Grassroots resistance to gold mining must be backed by policy
AKASHA / DORDEIB - “Sit-ins and other forms of community protests, such as blockades of national highways and stoppage of...
Pharmacy closures to ‘make way’ for Sudan economic liberalisation condemned
KHARTOUM - The Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (PPA) has strongly condemned the closure of medical supplier pharmacies in Khartoum, calling the move “a...
North Darfur Wali: ‘Drugs epidemic a disaster for Sudan society’
North Darfur Wali (governor), Nimir Abdelrahman, has voiced his concerns over the region’s deteriorating security situation, following a regular meeting...
Activists: ‘Anti-drug clampdown could lead to further civil persecution in Sudan’
Sudanese anti-drug activists and civil society organisations denounced comments made by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Lt Gen Abdelfattah...
Locals reject gold mining companies that use cyanide in South Kordofan
Resistance committees in Ghadeer, South Kordofan, have renewed their categorical rejection of the return of mining companies to the area...
Sudanese NGO visits White Nile to assess disease outbreaks
The Anti-Extremism Organisation for Dialogue and Peacebuilding will send a medical convoy to the rural hospital of El Gezira Aba...
10 cases of unidentified fever in Port Sudan cause alarm
At least 10 cases of fever were recorded in Port Sudan, capital Red Sea state, on Thursday. “The situation is...
UN OCHA: conflict, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and economic crisis most important risks to Sudan
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) presented its humanitarian needs overview for Sudan, including its Humanitarian Programme...
Unidentified fevers in Sudan’s Red Sea state amidst worst dengue outbreak in over a decade
More than 25 people in eastern Red Sea state are infected with unidentified fevers. Three of them died. Sudan is...
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