♦ This week’s news in brief ♦
A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's news highlights from Darfur and Sudan ♦ Sudan uprising: Mass demos and...
‘Demands of Sudan’s protesters are legitimate’: Al Bashir
The economic demands that demonstrators have been making for the past months are “legitimate”, the president of Sudan said at...
‘Tasgut bas!’ – Sudanese women on frontlines of protests despite prosecution
‘Tasqut bas!’ (‘Just fall, that’s all’), Sudanese women and men chant during demonstrations and strikes aimed against the government of...
Livestock disease, fire in camp for displaced in Central Darfur
People in Central Darfur’s Bindisi locality have complained about the deaths of dozens of donkeys and horses from an unknown...
Women killed in South Kordofan gold mine collapse
Eight women died and 11 other people sustained injuries when a gold mine collapsed in South Kordofan on Sunday. Witnesses...
El Gedaref, South Kordofan anti-government protests
Students in El Gedaref in eastern Sudan held a protest demonstration on Monday which was dispersed by security forces. People...
Politician released from detention in Sudan
In an interview with Radio Dabanga, Siddig Yousef, prominent member of the Communist Party of Sudan and the National Consensus...
Omar Al Bashir calls for open South Sudan border
President Omar Al Bashir has called for the opening of all crossings between Sudan and South Sudan, with the start...
Four arrested by security forces in East Darfur
Four men were taken from their homes in El Fadhu village in Asalaya locality on Thursday, reportedly for crimes related...
35 detained in West Kordofan militia raids
The number of detainees of a disarmament campaign in West Kordofan has risen to 35 people, who are being held...
Sudan Uprising: Families of detainees hold sit-in
The National Intelligence and Securitate Service (NISS) has prevented relatives from visiting detainees, some of whom are living in ‘dire’...
Sudan Call head: ‘Uprising has grown into broad resistance movement’
The president of the opposition Sudanese Congress Party and head of the Sudan Call “home faction”, Omar El Degeir, says...
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