♦ Sudan: This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's news highlights from Darfur and Sudan ♦ Cabinet reshuffle: Six Sudanese ministers...
Sit-ins spread in Sudan
New sit-ins demanding security, rights, freedoms, justice and better living conditions have spread in the western and eastern parts of...
Sudan Justice Minister clarifies repeal of strict laws
Justice Minister Nasreldin Abdelbari appeared on Sudan's national television on Saturday to clarify why the government decided to repeal several...
Sudan abolishes strict Islamic legislation
Sudan abolishes legislation that made apostacy punishable by death and allowed the Public Order police to publicly flog people. Non-Muslims...
No breakthrough in Ethiopian Renaissance Dam talks
Sudan, Ethiopia, and Egypt will submit a report to the African Union (AU) concerning their negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian...
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces occupy school in South Kordofan
On June 14, members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) occupied the El Zahraa Basic School for Girls in...
More than 350,000 people receive aid in Darfur’s Jebel Marra
United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners have provided life-assistance to at least 350,000 people in previously inaccessible parts of Jebel...
Eastern Sudanese farmers want their lands back
Farmers living in eastern El Gedaref demand their lands back. The farms have been occupied by Ethiopians for decades. In...
Sudan: Attacks on herders leave eight dead
On Thursday, five people were shot dead in El Radoom in South Darfur. The body of a man kidnapped in...
Over 10,000 recorded cases of coronavirus in Sudan
This morning the federal Ministry of Health reported 46 new coronavirus (Covid-19) infections in Sudan, as of July 7. This...
Strikes, marches and sit-ins in Sudan
Striking workers of the Khartoum state Water Corporation marched to the state secretariat and the Council of Ministers yesterday, to...
North Darfur sit-in achieves ban on motorcycles
The sit-in in Fata Borno in North Darfur’s Kutum, protesting the rampant insecurity in the area, secured its first victory...
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