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Minni Minnawi, a former insurgent chief of the Sudan Liberation Military (SLA), was appointed governor of Darfur on Sunday (Might 2) by the Sudanese Prime Minister. He shall be the very best authorities official within the province nonetheless torn aside by violence. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethThe alternative…

The Sovereign Council and the Council of Ministers jointly repealed a 1958 law banning Sudanese from diplomatic and commercial relations with the Hebrew state. Another step in the rapprochement between the two countries. Sixty-three years later, the boycott law disappears. This text forbade diplomatic and commercial relations, even indirect ones, with individuals or entities belonging to Israelis and even residents of Israel. Even the products were boycotted. Those who tried to break this law risked ten years in prison…

A Turkish charity on Monday donated 750 food packages to vulnerable Muslims in southern Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan. The Turkish Organization for Co-operation and Coordination (TIKA) handed over food parcels containing cooking oil, beans, rice, sugar and cornmeal to the Islamic Council of South Sudan in the capital Juba. Turkish Ambassador to South Sudan Erdem Mutaf said they would continue working with the Council to reach vulnerable people in remote areas. "This is the fifth day in a row…

Its goal is to find a way out of the inter-municipal clashes in the province, which have killed at least 144 people since early April. As early as January, murders had taken place in the city when pastors of Arab tribes had attacked their opponents in the Massalit peasant society. To show that he took the matter very seriously,…

In Sudan, in less than ten days and according to a report by the UN refugee agency, inter-municipal clashes have left 144 victims and more than 200 injured in El-Geneina in the Darfur region. The flight for almost 2000 refugees in nearby Chad. .

Tribal violence in Sudan's western Darfur region has displaced more than 1,800 people who have fled across the border into the nearby Central African nation of Chad in the past week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said. The majority of refugees are women, children and senior citizens who have fled villages near the border since the violence broke out on April 3, said Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some refugees have been…

Sudan's prime minister has invited his Egyptian and Ethiopian counterparts to discuss a resolution on issues surrounding Ethiopia's plans to build a dam on a tributary of the Nile, his office said on Wednesday. Last week, talks with the three countries hosting the President of the African Union, Congo, failed to reach a binding agreement on the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the filling of its large reservoir. Ever since construction began in 2011, Egypt has viewed the dam…

Two years ago in Sudan, a revolution led to the fall of President Omar al-Bashir after 30 years of rule. In Atbara, a small town in the north of the country that was the epicenter of the revolution, members of NISS, the dismissed president's security services, have been on trial for the murder of protesters. as reported from…

The failure, on Tuesday, April 6, of a three-day conversation in Kinshasa about the Ethiopian mega-hydroelectric dam built on a tributary of the Nile, weighs on the climate in the region. As the second phase of tank filling approaches, the positions seem further apart than ever. Sudanese negotiators left Kinshasa very angry.…

As the latest round of negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt over Ethiopia's plans to build a dam on a tributary of the Nile failed to bring anything of value to the table and tensions between African nations continue to rise, Cairo and Uganda have signed an agreement on the division of military intelligence. According to a statement from Uganda's National Defense Force (UPDF) released late on Wednesday, the agreement was signed between UPDF's Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and the…