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Tigrayan Ethiopian blue helmets in Sudan apply for asylum, says official

A group of some 550 Ethiopian United Nations peacekeepers working in Sudan have claimed asylum due to their Tigrayan background, an official working in the area of refugee response told Reuters newswire.

Radio France Internationale

Sudan frees ex-officials in effort to end political impasse

Lawyers say Sudanese authorities have released two outspoken former government officials from prison

The Independent UK

Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors says 176 were killed in recent West Darfur clashes

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said on Wednesday that 176 were killed and 220 were injured in armed clashes that broke out on Monday in Sudan's West Darfur state.

Reuters

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More troops sent to Darfur after violent tribal clashes

In tonight's edition: More troops are sent to the turbulent region of Darfur in Sudan, after days of clashes between Arab and Masalit communities that cost more than 175 lives. Also, as South Africa pledges more money to flood-stricken communities, President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be real-time audits on…

France 24

Ethiopian soldiers seek asylum in Sudan, fear returning home due to Tigrayan ethnicity

Up to 550 Ethiopian peacekeepers working in Sudan have sought asylum rather than return home for fear they will be persecuted due to their Tigrayan ethnicity, an official with direct knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday.

Reuters

UN calls for probe into attack in Darfur that killed 168, injured 99

The United Nations has called for an investigation into the killings last Sunday of residents of Kerneik, West Darfur in Sudan. An aid group working in the area said 168 people were killed, and 98 were wounded.

Radio France Internationale

West Darfur fighting spreads to capital city El Geneina - residents

Armed clashes broke out on Monday in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur and Sudan's westernmost city, residents said, as fighting that killed scores of people in a nearby town over the weekend spread.

Reuters

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Six months since coup, Sudan promises to keep up democracy fight

A brutal military crackdown has upended countless lives, but has not broken the spirit of the pro-democracy movement.

Al Jazeera

Aid Group: Violence in Sudan's Darfur Kills 168

Clashes between rival groups in Sudan's Darfur killed at least 168 people on Sunday, an aid group said, in the latest bout of deadly violence to hit the restive region. Darfur, which was ravaged by civil war that erupted in 2003, has seen a spike in deadly conflict since October…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Analysis-Under military's watch, Sudan's former ruling party making a comeback

Since Sudan's military staged a coup six months ago many former allies of toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir have been allowed to rejoin the civil service while others have been freed from jail in an apparent push to form a government and reassure donors.

Reuters

Images of Sudan's Bashir in hospital draw anger on social media

Many Sudanese social media users have reacted angrily to a video that emerged of deposed President Omar al-Bashir walking around a hospital ward where he was moved on the grounds he was too ill for prison, although some voiced support for the ex-general.

Reuters

Sudan investigates social worker for ‘leaking state secrets’ to UN

Human rights activists say Sulima Ishaq’s work against sexual violence implicates the government she works for.

Al Jazeera

Cairo for a Future Strategy with OFID

Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation Rania al-Mashat has confirmed that Arab financial institutions led by Saudi Arabia have provided $9 billion for the advancement of Sinai, noting that the Kuwait Fund supports technical studies of the railway link project between Egypt and Sudan through a grant of $2.5 million. Al-Mashat…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sudan’s Burhan Gestures Towards Steps to Ease Tensions

Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestured in comments on Friday towards steps to ease tensions in the country six months after a military coup. “We are embarking on a difficult period and we must all present concessions for the sake of our country,” he said, noting the deteriorating…

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Reuters

Sudan's Burhan gestures towards steps to ease tensions

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestured in comments on Friday towards steps to ease tensions in the country six months after a military coup.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sudan Authorities Release Bashir Era Leaders, Carry out Fresh Wave of Arrests

Sudanese authorities carried out on Wednesday a massive arrest campaign against leaders of Resistance Committees. They also released leading member of the National Congress Party (the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan) Anas Omar and several leading members of the now banned party, which is headed by ousted…

Daily Record

Glasgow Park Inn hotel stabbing attack survivor been 'through hell and back' as he struggles to recover

Mo was attacked alongside five other people after Sudanese national Badreddin Abadlla Adam went on a rampage at the hotel in Glasgow in June 2020.

The Conversation

Russia-Ukraine conflict is driving up wheat prices: this could fuel instability in Sudan

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major food exporting regions. The war threatens to drive rising food prices still higher and create scarcity, especially for regions most dependent on wheat and other exports from Russia and Ukraine.

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Archaeological site along the Nile opens a window on the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan

Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos in northern Sudan. They reveal tumuli – the underground burial tombs used at least as far back as 2500 B.C. by ancient inhabitants who called this region Kush or Nubia. As a bioarchaeologist who excavates and…

Glasgow Live

Glasgow hotel knifeman shot dead by police 'asked for help 72 times' before stabbing rampage

An internal Home Office evaluation, leaked to the BBC, said the 28-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker's contact with all three bodies "should have acted as a warning".

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mass Protests in Sudan Marking Third Anniversary of Bashir’s Ouster

Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and other cities on Monday to mark the third anniversary of former leader Omar al-Bashir’s ouster and protest the prospect of renewed military rule. Bashir was overthrown after three decades in power by a group of his top…

Reuters

Sudanese protesters mark third anniversary of Bashir's ouster with fresh protests

Crowds of Sudanese protesters gathered in parts of the capital and other Sudanese cities on Monday, the third anniversary of Omar al-Bashir's ouster to protest the prospect of renewed military rule.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Conflicting Statements Complicate Sudan Crisis

Spokesman of Sudan's Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) civilian alliance Jaafar Hassan dismissed reports about negotiations being held between the alliance and the army leadership. He told Asharq Al-Awsat that the FFC is committed to its position of rejecting any partnership, negotiations or recognition of the military rule.

Reuters

Jailed head of Sudan's outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed -lawyer

The jailed head of Sudan's former ruling party is be freed, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday, becoming the most senior figure from the deposed regime of Omar al-Bashir to have charges of crimes against the state dropped since a coup last October.

Al Jazeera

Sudanese mark removal of al-Bashir with protest against army rule

The 2019 removal of the former president is marked with demonstrations against October 2021 military coup.

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