♦ This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan ♦ 'Human trafficking crimes increasing...
Sudanese Writers’ Union closer to regaining expropriated building
The Supreme Court ordered to write-off an appeal by the Ministry of Culture against the Sudanese Writers' Union building being...
Assault claim against church leader
The police summoned Rev Yahya Abdelrahim to a police station to investigate a complaint of assault filed against him, in...
Five cases of serious sunstroke in Port Sudan
Five more cases of sunstroke, including one death, were recorded in Port Sudan hospitals on Sunday and Monday. The city...
42 cholera dead in South Darfur camp
In two months, 42 people have died of cholera in Kalma camp for displaced people in South Darfur. 539 others...
Sudan press court fines critical journalist
The Press and Publications Court ruled that journalist Suheir Abdelrahim must pay a fine of SDG3,000 ($446,800) for criticising Sudanese...
Resigned Darfuri students return, university dispute endures
The case of hundreds of students from Darfur who resigned en masse from their university in White Nile state, with...
Sudan court rules: Girls in trousers not ‘disgraceful dress’
Sudan's Public Order Court has dismissed charges against two girls, accused of wearing disgraceful dress, citing a lack of evidence...
Qatar grants $70 million for Darfur model villages
Sudan signed a new agreement for the construction of model villages for displaced people in Darfur with the State of...
World Humanitarian Day: UN official commends aid workers in Sudan
On the occasion of the World Humanitarian Day, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan lauded “the thousands of...
UK grants $5.8m to World Food Programme for aid in Darfur
The United Kingdom (UK) has contributed £4.5 million ($5.8 million) to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to provide essential...
Darfur rebel leaders meet with international envoys in Berlin
On Saturday, leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minawi and the Justice and Equality Movement met with international envoys in...
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