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March 27 - 2020 KHARTOUM / PORT SUDAN / EL FASHER / ZALINGEI

No new coronavirus cases recorded in Sudan

The Sudanese Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that no new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the country. In eastern Sudan, a woman is held in quarantine. Darfur...

March 27 - 2020 SUAKIN / EL OBEID

Thirst in Sudan’s Red Sea state and North Kordofan

People living in Suakin, south of Port Sudan in Red Sea state, are complaining about a severe drinking water crisis. In El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan, people took to the...

March 27 - 2020 BASUNDA

Herders free relatives kidnapped by Ethiopian gunmen in eastern Sudan

Ethiopian gunmen kidnapped three Sudanese herders in El Gedaref on Wednesday. Relatives of the herders managed to free them without paying ransom. On Thursday, El Rashid Abdelgadir,...

March 27 - 2020 KHARTOUM

Coronavirus: ‘Sudan needs a total lock-down for two weeks’

Sudanese politicians and civil society activists have described the measures taken by the government to limit the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) as good but incomplete. They...

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Norwegian Refugee Council: A new Sudan faces corona with little support

March 28 - 2020 OSLO

Sudan's new government shows readiness to rebuild the country and aid agencies want to scale up, but both lack international support to act, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a press statement on Thursday. “An historic opportunity is being lost in Sudan right now in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.”

March 27 - 2020 EL FASHER

Unamid chief lauds Sudan peace talks, calls on Abdelwahid to join

The United Nations Secretary-General has called for ‘an immediate global’ ceasefire in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. The head of the UN-AU joint peacekeeping...

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