Sudan News

September 24, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Nearly 15 million people in Sudan are facing a hunger crisis, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Representative to Sudan. Eddie Rowe, in his remarks to reporters in Geneva on Friday, spoke about...

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt on Saturday met with Sudan’s leader in Cairo for talks that focused on ties between the two neighbours, officials said.El-Sissi welcomed Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Suda...

      Qatar Chamber recently held a meeting with Minni Arko Minawi, the Ruler of Darfur region in Sudan, to discuss investment co-operation and enhancing the role of the private sector in both countries.The chamber’s first vice-chair...

September 23, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Embattled Sudan’s military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said ready to visit Israel if he is invited by its government. Al-Burhan travelled to New York to take part in the annual gathering of world leaders w...

Sat, 2022-09-24 00:55NEW YORK: Sudan’s ruling military general, who mounted a coup nearly a year ago, said he will not run in future elections for a civilian-led government, but offered no timeline on when a vote might happen in order for...

  By Tesfa-Alem Tekle   September 23, 2022 (NAIROBI) – Ethiopia and South Sudan have agreed to carry out a series of joint infrastructure projects that would eventually enable the latter to link with the port of Djibouti. The agreement was...

September 22, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The European Union (EU) has welcomed the Sudanese military’s decision to withdraw from politics, stressing that handover of power to civilians should be managed responsibly and without any unilateral moves....

September 23, 2022 (NEW YORK) – South Sudan’s Vice President, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol has pledged his country’s readiness to mediate an end to the conflict in Sudan. Akol, also the Chair of the Service Cluster, told the United Nations Gener...

The head of the military-led ruling Sovereign Council Thursday called on the international community to resume the foreign debt relief process and reiterated his pledge to not participate in the transitional government. Before launching a...

September 22, 2022 (JUBA) – Sudan and South Sudan have resumed talks over the final status of Abyei, raising hopes of reaching a deal over the disputed region. South Sudan’s presidential adviser on security affairs told Sudan Tribune that...

by Amgad Fareid Eltayeb Former Political Advisor to UNITAMS, and Former Assistant Chief of Staff to Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. Accessible at: [email protected]   The dawn of October 25, 2021, was a turning point in Suda...

Comments come after investigation by The New Humanitarian and Al Jazeera finds such cases have gone unchecked for years.

September 21, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The death toll from heavy rains and floods in Sudan has now risen to 146, the country’s National Council for Civil Defence has revealed. “Until Sept. 21, the torrential rains and floods have killed 146 peopl...

September 21, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Al-Burhan’s participation in the meetings of the UN General Assembly opens a new page in Sudan’s relations with the West and especially the United States, his media adviser said on Wednesday. The head of the...

September 21, 2022 (JUBA) – South Sudan has urged the United Nations to recognise the outcomes of a referendum held in the contested oil-producing region in October 2013. About 99% of the Ngok Dinka voted to join South Sudan in the controv...

[Dabanga] Jebel Amer -- Eight bodies have been retrieved from the rubble, while 12 miners are still unaccounted for after a shaft collapsed in the Jebel Amer gold mining area of El Sereif locality in North Darfur on Sunday. Local rescuers c...

September 21, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese Diaspora and activist groups in the United States called on the world leaders participating in the 77UNGA to condemn the military coup and exert maximum pressure on the military component to hand ov...

There were seven years' worth of warning signs. So why have efforts been so slow to prevent sexual abuse at Malakal?

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle September 21, 2022 (NAIROBI) –  South Sudan vice President, Taban Deng Gai, arrived in Addis Ababa for an official working visit on Wednesday. Gai arrived in Addis Ababa this afternoon leading a high-level South Sudanes...

September 20, 2022 (KASSALA) – Detainees in Kassala state prison are threatening to engage in an open hunger strike to protest their prolonged and arbitrary detention. Kassala state authorities have taken in custody a number of activists a...

September 20, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan hosts one of the largest refugee populations in Africa, with 1.14 million refugees and asylum seekers as of June 30, a report shows. Data on the number of refugees and asylum seekers are contained in t...

September 21, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdel Rahman, Chairman of the military-led Transitional Sovereign Council, left Khartoum on Wednesday, heading to New York to participate in the 77th session of the United Nations Gene...

Minister of Manpower Hassan Shehata and Sudanese Minister of Labor and Administrative Reform Soad al-Tayyeb have reaffirmed the depth of relations binding Egypt and Sudan in all domains as well as the historical bonds between their peoples....

September 20, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The number of confirmed cases of the monkeypox virus in Sudan has risen to seven including a case in the capital Khartoum, Sudanese health officials said on Tuesday. Sudanese health authority confirmed the f...

September 20, 2022 (JUBA) – South Sudan has acquired three acres of land at the port of Djibouti for the construction of a facility to handle the import and exportation of goods initially channeled through Mombasa port in Kenya. The Vice P...

September 20, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – At least 109 people are illegally detained by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Port Sudan prison in the Red Sea state, an advocacy group said on Monday. The Darfur Lawyers Association revealed that the deta...

September 19, 2022 (NEW YORK) – The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres has pledged his full support to the peace and stability of South Sudan. He made the assurance at a meeting with South Sudan’s Vice President for Service...

September 19, 2022 (JUBA) – Sudan and South Sudan’s state-owned oil corporations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening cooperation in human resource development as well as promotion of personnel exchanges....

September 19, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Chairman of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan returned to the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday, hours after attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth in London. Accompanied by the acting Foreign...

September 18, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The Popular Congress Party (PCP)’s Shura Council rejected on Sunday the draft transitional constitution proposed by the Sudanese Bar Association, which was signed by the party’s acting secretariat. “We rejec...