The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

Hundreds of protesters rallied on Tuesday against last year's military coup in Sudan and a recent spike in tribal violence which killed more than 100 people, AFP correspondents said. Sudan's main civilian group, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), which was ousted in the coup, had called for mass…

The US has revived diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute sparked by Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt, which rely most heavily on the Nile’s water flow, consider the US$4.6 billion reservoir as a serious threat to vital water supplies. But Ethiopia considers…

Refugees in the Blue Nile say their conditions are becoming increasingly desperate as help fails to arrive.

Sudan’s Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) acknowledged that the greatest challenge facing the interim constitutional document is the army’s unwillingness to allow a full democratic transition in the North African nation coupled with a weak civilian government. Last October, Sudan's ruling council head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced the dissolution…

The World Bank has agreed to provide the UN's World Food Program with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday. The program, whose funding comes from the European Union, United Kingdom, and several other nations, aims…

The World Bank has agreed to provide the U.N.'s World Food Programme with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday.

Ethnic clashes in a deadly land dispute in Sudan's Blue Nile state has killed 105 people and wounded 291, the state's health minister said Wednesday, providing a new toll. Fighting broke out in the southern state which borders Ethiopia and South Sudan on July 11 between members of the Berti…

Days of tribal clashes in a southern province in Sudan have killed at least 79 people, a senior Sudanese official said Tuesday as violent protests erupted in two nearby provinces in the East African nation. The clashes between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province grew…

In tonight's edition: Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people have set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities following a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south. Meanwhile, Italy’s PM Mario Draghi is in Algeria where an energy deal is being signed between the two countries. Finally,…