ICC confirms former Darfur janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb will stand trial for war crimes
The Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, issued a unanimous decision today...
West Darfur Doctors Committee: 12 dead and 15 wounded in latest violence in Kereinik and Jebel Moon
The West Darfur State Doctors Committee said that 12 people were killed and 15 were wounded during four days of violence...
Armed forces shoot civilians in Port Sudan and Omdurman
The National Network for Social Justice said that the residents of Dar El Naim neighbourhood in the south of Port Sudan...
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Sudan outraged as Ethiopia announces second filling of GERD
Sudan’s Foreign Minister has voiced outrage following an announcement by Ethiopia that it has initiated the second filling of the...
Sudan’s new Legislative Council to convene in August
Sudan’s Transitional Partners Council has started the long-awaited formation of a Transitional Legislative Council, with its first session planned for August...
20+ dead in West Darfur cashes
The death toll from four days of tribal clashes in the villages of Sirba locality in West Darfur has risen...
Outcry as Sudan blocks El Sudani newspaper and 30 other websites
A chorus of condemnation has erupted from politicians and media advocates for human rights over the blocking of the website...
Christian affairs advisor assaulted, threatened in Sudan capital
Boutros Badawi, the advisor for Christian affairs to Sudan’s Minister of Religious Affairs, was assaulted by armed men as he...
Central Darfur Wali: 76 bodies and counting as mass graves await exhumation
Three mass graves have been discovered in Central Darfur, State Wali (governor) Adeeb Abdelrahman has confirmed. In one of them,...
West Darfur displaced question IOM figures on returnees
The Association of Displaced Persons and Refugees have questioned figures published by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), asserting that...
Status agreement for UN assistance mission in Sudan signed in Khartoum
Sudan’s Foreign Minister and the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG), Volker Perthes, signed the official Status of...
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