New $5 million agreement to improve health facilities in eastern Sudan
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Sudanese Ministries of International Cooperation and Health have reached an agreement on improving...
Unamid downsizing: 570 civilian jobs to be lost in Darfur
The United Nations-African Union peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (Unamid) has handed 11 team sites across Darfur to the Sudanese government....
Censors swoop on Khartoum International Book Fair
Sudanese security officials have seized a number of books and novels from exhibits at the Khartoum International Book Fair that...
Sudan’s north still ‘in the dark’ despite electricity contracts
Residents of 17 local communities in Delgo locality in Sudan’s Northern State complain of a delay in the delivery of...
Grazing livestock destroy tracts of Darfur food crops
Farmers in North Darfur’ Kutum locality complain that large tracts of farmland have been destroyed by herders driving livestock onto...
Sudan ‘disappointed’ at renewed US travel warning
The Sudanese government has reacted ‘with regret’ to the announcement on Thursday by the US State Department in Washington of...
Kassala market cart ban: 30 owners fined
More than 30 cart owners in New Halfa locality in Sudan’s Kassala were fined SDG500 ($75) each on Friday as...
‘Drunken’ attackers in rickshaw injure East Darfur police – two arrested
Two policemen were wounded when a gang of allegedly drunken gunmen opened fire on Um Deidan police station in Abu...
North Darfur mine well collapse traps dozens
A water well in one of the gold mines in Jebel Amer in North Darfur on Thursday collapsed with dozens...
Eastern Sudan farmers warn of crop failure
Farmers in New Halfa, in Kassala state, have warned against the failure of the winter season wheat crops because of...
Boy, man abducted in North Darfur
A boy and a man were abducted in separate incidents in Tawila and in East Jebel Marra on Sunday and...
Minister to declare Sudan ‘watery diarrhoea’ free
The Sudanese Minister of Health, Bahar Idris Abugarda, announced Sudan to be clear of the acute watery diarrhoea epidemic. His...
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