Juba — The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources within the mission told Sudan Tribune Tuesday. Tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, which both claim Abyei, have heightened since the murder of [...]
May 14,2013 (JUBA)- The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources within the mission told Sudan Tribune Tuesday. the late leader of the Dinka Ngok tribe, Kuol Deng Kuol (L), shakes hands with [...]
By Peter Martell (AFP) – 11 hours ago ADDIS ABABA — Marathon efforts to strike a deal between rival neighbours Sudan and South Sudan stretched late into the night Wednesday, as earlier optimism that an agreement would be signed appeared to fade. Negotiations between former civil war foes President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and his [...]
By Peter Martell (AFP) – 2 days ago ADDIS ABABA — The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan failed to strike a deal Monday in ongoing talks, despite growing pressure to settle festering disputes that have brought them to the brink of renewed conflict. Former civil war foes President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and his [...]
By Peter Martell (AFP) – 1 day ago ADDIS ABABA — The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan met late Sunday as international pressure grew to end long-running disputes that have brought the former civil war foes to the brink of renewed conflict. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his Southern counterpart Salva Kiir met for [...]
KHARTOUM — Hundreds of protesters breached the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Sudan‘s capital on Friday, raising a black Islamist flag after breaking through a protective phalanx of police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. U.S. embassy officials in Khartoum said late Friday that police had finally dispersed the protesters. They said protesters didn’t [...]
Al-Qaida’s most active branch in the Middle East called for more attacks on U.S. embassies Saturday to “set the fires blazing,” seeking to co-opt outrage over an anti-Muslim film even as the wave of protests that swept 20 countries this week eased. Senior Muslim religious authorities issued their strongest pleas yet against resorting to violence, [...]
14 September 2012 Last updated at 16:16 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Footage shows protesters in Khartoum storming the German embassy At least six people were killed on Friday in demonstrations over a film made in the US that mocks Islam – as protests spread around the world. Three people [...]
Workshop on Food Security and Nutrition in Khartoum FAO Regional Office for the Near East in collaboration with the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is organizing a Regional Multi-Stakeholder workshop on Food Security and Nutrition, in Khartoum, Sudan during 17 – 18 September 2012. The workshop is organised as a follow-up to a recommendation [...]
Khartoum — The head of the government-controlled Union of Sudanese journalists (USJ), Mohi Al-Din Titawi, announced on Monday that all journalists arrested during a crackdown on weeks of protests in the country have been released. Titawi told Sudan official news agency SUNA that the country’s prisons are now free of journalists. He called on journalists [...]
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