♦ This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's highlights of the news from Darfur and Sudan ♦ Renewed tribal clashes...
US calls for accountability in Darfur’s Jebel Marra
The US Embassy in Khartoum has voiced its “concern about the alarming malnutrition rates and deteriorating humanitarian situation in the...
US official meets with Sudan Speaker, explains sanctions decision
US Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Steven Koutsis met with Sudan National Assembly Speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omer in Khartoum yesterday. In a...
East Darfur tribes tense, bodies unburied
Tension remains in Adila and Abu Karinka localities after members of the Maaliya and Rizeigat clashed from Friday until Sunday....
Protestor dies in Khartoum state land rights riot
A man was run-over by a police car, and ten others were injured in clashes between police and people in...
Woman beaten to death in Central Darfur
Militiamen beat a 32-year-old woman to death at her farm west of Zalingei on Sunday evening. Three farmers were attacked...
Improvements underway in Sudan’s drought-stricken Durdeib
A locality in Red Sea state suffers from a severe water shortage, where the price of a water barrel has...
Sudan summons Iraqi ambassador
On Monday the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Iraqi Charge D'Affaires in Khartoum, Mohamed Samir Hassan, to talk about...
Students barred entry to North Darfur city
Darfuri university students who arrived in El Fasher over the past days after their mass resignation from the University of...
New cholera cases recorded in North Darfur, El Gezira
The Kabkabiya Hospital in North Darfur received 30 new cholera patients over the weekend. The wards of the Tamboul Hospital in...
‘Disarmament in Darfur will start this year’: Sudan V-P
The second vice-president of Sudan has announced the collection of weapons in Darfur and the reorganisation of the country’s armed...
UNISFA calls for restraint in Abyei
The UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) calls for restraint and calm among communities in the Abyei Area following...
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