India is set to deploy a platoon of Women Peacekeepers in Sudan’s Abyei region today as part of the Indian Battalion in the United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA). This will be India’s largest single unit of women Peacekeepers in a UN Mission since it deployed the first-ever all-women contingent […]
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31 people killed in tribal clashes in Sudan
At least 31 people were killed in a tribal conflict on Friday in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, the state’s government said. “Tribal clashes took place at some cities of the region on Friday leaving 31 people dead and 39 others injured with 16 shops destroyed,” the state’s security committee said in […]
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Sudan to have new Prime Minister, sovereign council within week: Al-Burhan
A new prime minister and the Sovereign Council will appear in Sudan within a couple of days, “within a week at the latest,” the commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, told Sputnik. “I hope this will be done in a couple of days or within a week at the latest,” al-Burhan said when asked about the timing […]
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Italy hopes for return to democratic transition process in Sudan, says Foreign Ministry
Italy expressed concern over the developments in Sudan and hope for the soonest possible return to the process of democratic transformation in that African country, the Italian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The Foreign Ministry expresses concern over the news from Khartoum, Sudan. The Italian side expresses the hope that […]
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India backs support to Sudan’s transitional government, calls for Juba Peace Agreement implementation
India on Friday (local time) expressed support to the transitional government led by Abdalla Hamdok in Sudan and backed the implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement in the country. The developments came during a United Nations General Assembly High Level (UNGA) virtual event on Sudan organised by Norway’s UN mission in New York. “Participated in UNGA High-Level […]
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UN Security Council condemns attempted coup in Sudan
The United Nations Security Council has condemned in the strongest terms Tuesday’s attempt to disrupt Sudan’s transition by force. In a statement, the members of the Security Council reiterated their full support to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in his endeavors to see Sudan through a successful transition in a manner that achieves the hopes and aspirations of the Sudanese people […]
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Sudan marks notice by Ethiopia on Nile dam as ‘useless’
Sudan said on Tuesday that the notification it received from Ethiopia over the second filling of a huge dam on the Nile River is useless without a negotiated deal among related countries. “The Irrigation and Water Resources Ministry received a letter from its Ethiopian counterpart notifying it has started the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance […]
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Sudan’s former PM Sadiq al-Mahdi dies from Covid-19 in UAE
Leading Sudanese politician and former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection three weeks after being hospitalised in the United Arab Emirates, according to family sources and a party statement early on Thursday. Mahdi, 84, was Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and was overthrown in 1989 in […]