♦ Sudan: This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact digest of the past weeks' most-read highlights, from the heart of Sudan. Subscribe to receive this digest weekly in your inbox....
Sudan timeline January-March 2022: Political turmoil, lawlessness as attempts to revive democratic transition collapse
The first days of 2022 saw the final collapse of the already tenuous political agreement that reinstated Sudan’s Prime Minister...
Three killed, five wounded in Sudan agricultural protests
Three people were shot dead, and five others were wounded by coup forces during a protest in the Abu Nama...
Sudan communists snub AU-IGAD-UN summons
Members of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) declined the invitation to talk with the trilateral mechanism of the United Nations...
Sudan activists held in new detention campaign
Sudan’s Emergency Lawyers reported that the authorities launched an extensive detention campaign against activists in Khartoum and El Gezira on...
Sudanese farmers killed by Ethiopian ‘shifta’ in cross border attack
Two Sudanese farmers were killed and another wounded in an attack by Ethiopian gunmen (called shifta in the region) near...
OCHA: 56k displaced by community conflicts in Darfur, Kordofan
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan reports that 56,000 people have been displaced due to the...
Darfuri refugees in Chad: ‘Spate of armed robberies ends year of relative stability’
Sudanese (mainly Darfuri) refugees in Gaga camp in eastern Chad, complain of increasing insecurity and armed robberies around and inside...
Popular actor slain in West Darfur home robbery
Suspects have been arrested by police in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, after popular theatre actor/playwright Mohamed Yousef, known...
Lawlessness in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains: at least three killed in April
Lawlessness and insecurity continue in South Kordofan’s Nuba Mountains according to new reports by the Human Rights and Development Organisation...
Sudan’s Consumer Protection Association calls attention to electricity and oil issues
The Consumer Protection Association joined a group of organisations and individuals who filed an official complaint in Khartoum against the doubling...
Central Darfur witnesses a violent weekend
Central Darfur witnessed a violent weekend with deadly robberies and the forced release of a murder suspect. In Zalingei, a university...
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