♦ Sudan news highlights ♦
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UN High Commissioner Volker Türk, calls for accountability, more efforts to end war in Sudan
Briefing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today on the situation surrounding the North Darfur capital of El Fasher,...
UNSC to hold closed consultations on Sudan
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is due to hold closed consultations today on the situation in Sudan, amid renewed...
Sudan’s war threatens fragile progress against FGM
Each year, an estimated four million people worldwide are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). In Sudan, where prevalence has...
Minister of Social Welfare: ‘Sudan holds perpetrators of sexual violence accountable, including members of the regular forces’
Sudan’s State Minister at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, Dr Salima Ishaq, has acknowledged that cases of...
Two women from El Gedaref and Blue Nile face death by stoning in Sudan prison
Activists and human rights defenders say that two women, from El Gedaref and Blue Nile respectively, are being detained in...
Op-ed: A land abandoned – The cost of global silence on Darfur
By Ikhlass Ahmed I write this not only from a place of pain but from the centre of an open...
‘Sudan’s war has become a systematic assault on women’
Sudan’s war, now more than 1,000 days old, has shifted from a military confrontation to what feminist and human rights...
12 Sudanese girls gang-raped in eastern Chad – refugees appeal to govt, UNHCR for better security
Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad are appealing for increased security measures after a group of at least 12 Sudanese girls...
East Darfur a vast displacement camp after 1,000 days of war
By Abdelmoneim Madibu for Radio Dabanga and Sudan Media Forum Joint Newsroom After more than 40 years spent in Sudan’s...
The dilemma of being a journalist in Sudan
Compiled by Media Network and Madamik Newspaper for Sudan Media Forum For years, the press in Sudan has been going...
When women speak in rhythm… Rap as a space for expression and survival
In a musical world that for many years has been shaped by fixed stereotypes and social constraints, Sudanese female rappers...
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