Sudan’s government launched a large-scale military campaign in areas controlled by the Darfur armed movements and rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N ) in the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. This comes amid reports that the authorities are anticipating surprises from the rebels in the northern and central parts of Sudan. About This [...]
By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 – On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were shattered by Bashir when he invaded Abyei in May 2011. But such memories will be bitterer this [...]
Khartoum — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, has announced that Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Mujahideen (holy fighters) are “now” on the outskirts of Abu-Kershola in South Kordofan’s northeast and vowed to annihilate rebels of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF). Al-Bashir, who was addressing the graduation ceremony of the 48th batch of the [...]
— South Sudanese President Salva Kiir will visit Khartoum this month, taking up the invitation extended by his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir when he visited Juba in April, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Sudanese state media also reported that Kiir will travel to Khartoum later this month. Bashir’s visit to Juba was his first since [...]
April 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – More than a dozen members from the pro-Islamist group known as Sa’ihoon staged a demonstration in downtown Khartoum today, calling for the release of the former director of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) chief Salah Gosh and five other detainees accused in a last year’s thwarted coup attempt [...]
— South Sudanese President Salva Kiir will visit Khartoum this month, taking up the invitation extended by his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir when he visited Juba in April, a government spokesman said Tuesday. Sudanese state media also reported that Kiir will travel to Khartoum later this month. Bashir’s visit to Juba was his first since [...]
Political parties from 35 African nations are meeting in Khartoum to create a joint forum that will further unify the continent. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir told the opening session of the two-day gathering that it is unfortunate that Africa has not had proportionate representation in international forums despite the continent’s history and its population of [...]
By Luka Biong Deng* It seemed the moderates within Sudan’s ruling NCP eventually prevailed over the hardliners, allowing for president Omar el-Bashir’s visit to Juba to go ahead. This is a positive sign. However, the visit was also necessitated by other factors. These included the diplomatic embarrassment of Bashir’s failure to attend the inauguration ceremony [...]
It seemed the moderates within Sudan‘s ruling NCP eventually prevailed over the hardliners, allowing for president Omar el-Bashir‘s visit to Juba to go ahead. This is a positive sign. However, the visit was also necessitated by other factors. These included the diplomatic embarrassment of Bashir‘s failure to attend the inauguration ceremony of Kenyan president Uhuru [...]
Preparations are underway for the upcoming inauguration of a land road connecting two Nile countries whose fates have been long connected, not only in history but in everyday life: Egypt and Sudan. According to a government official, the inauguration of the land road on the eastern side of Egypt to its southern neighbour Sudan should [...]
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