El Bugaa festival launched in Sudan on World Theatre Day
Sudan’s National Council for Culture and Arts will today inaugurate the 20th edition of El Bugaa Theatre Festival*, coinciding with...
Fire destroys homes, crops, fodder in South Darfur
Dozens of families are living rough in the open and under trees after an extensive fire consumed homes and property...
Unamid grant of vehicles to Darfur Ministry criticised
The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (Unamid) has handed-over five vehicles to the legal departments of the Ministry of...
Omdurman pharmacist injured in armed robbery
A woman pharmacist was severely injured in Sudan’s second city of Omdurman this week, when an armed group stormed and...
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A compact weekly digest of Dabanga Sudan's news highlights from Darfur and Sudan ♦ ‘Detained demonstrators mistreated in Sudan’:...
Two returnees killed over tensions in Darfur
Gunmen shot and killed two people in East Darfur on Sunday who had returned from the camp for displaced people...
Politicians and lawyers appeal against Sudan’s Emergency Orders
Party leaders and human rights activists have appealed against the constitutionality of the Emergency and Public Safety Act of 1997,...
Sudanese journalists step-up press freedom protests
The Sudanese Journalists’ Network carried out a protest march in central Khartoum to demand freedom of the press on Monday,...
Lack of fuel for transport, water pumps affects people, livestock in Sudan
The shortage of fuel and flour in many Sudanese states has resulted in numerous complaints by residents. In South Darfur,...
Sudan-South Sudan border crossings remain closed
Border crossings between Sudan and South Sudan are still closed, despite recent statements by the Sudanese government about the opening...
Sudan OCHA bulletin 2: Aid agencies visit five return villages in Jebel Moon locality, West Darfur
On 17 January inter-communal conflict in the Jebel Moon locality of West Darfur State affected an estimated 3,500 people in...
Bread crises, salary double-standards in Sudan
Residents in South Darfur have told Radio Dabanga most bakeries are out of work, while bankers in Khartoum complain of...
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