White Nile flooding isolates 24 villages, water shortage in eastern Sudan
The White Nile River has flooded 10,000 acres of farmland at Um Jar Island in Sudan’s White Nile state. The...
Shops closed for non-payment of royalties in South Darfur capital
The municipal authorities in the South Darfur capital of Nyala have closed 17 shops in the city’s Grand Market for...
Sudanese farmers lament high cost of sesame harvest
Farmers in Sudan’s largely agricultural El Gedaref state have complained about the high cost of this year’s sesame harvest. They...
UNHCR: Sudanese refugee leaders from Chad visit Darfur to assess return prospects
After more than a decade in exile, Sudanese refugees begin to look more seriously at returning to Darfur; 25 Sudanese...
Wali: ‘North Darfur can expect house-to-house searches to collect weapons, vehicles’
The Wali (governor) of North Darfur, Abdelwahid Yousif, says he has received more than 3,000 weapons from the Popular Defence...
Saudi King promises Al Bashir he’ll ‘stand with Sudan in good and bad’
Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir has concluded an official two-day tour of the Gulf states, which began in Kuwait on...
Vaccination team injured by gunfire in North Darfur
Three members of a child immunisation team of the Ministry of Health in North Darfur were seriously wounded by gunfire...
Sudan’s Red Sea state govt. slated for cancelling education-for-food project
Leaders from Eastern Sudan have sharply criticised the Red Sea state government for announcing the cancellation of food-for-education programme, however...
Marauding militants rob and rustle in Darfur
Three people were shot dead and three others were wounded in an attack by militants on Fara village in Tullus...
UNDP: Darfur Internal Dialogue and Consultation Conference to be held in Khartoum
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that the Darfur Internal Dialogue and Consultation Conference will be held on...
UNHCR concerned over humanitarian situation of South Sudanese refugees in Khartoum
The representation of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Sudan is concerned about “the inadequate response to the humanitarian needs...
‘Sudan govt.’s admission of failure first of its kind’: Economist
Economic expert Dr Sidgi Kabello expressed his surprise at the First Vice-President and Prime-Minister, Bakri Hassan Saleh’s recognition of the...
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