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What is behind the tribal violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile State?

Clashes between two tribes have killed at least 79 people, wounded 150 others and left dozens of shops torched.

Al Jazeera

Tensions spread in Sudan as tribal clashes rage on

The death toll from tribal clashes triggered by land disputes in southeastern Sudan's Blue Nile State has risen to at least 64, medical sources said on Monday, with the long festering tensions spreading into some other states.

Reuters

Explosion of Violence in South Sudan Threatens Peace Pact

An explosion of violence in South Sudan is raising fears that the country's fragile peace agreement will unravel before elections the international community hopes can be held next year. The wave of near-daily killings across this East African country is often blamed on marauding militias whose attacks threaten the 2018…

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Explosion of violence in South Sudan threatens peace pact

An explosion of violence in South Sudan is raising fears that the country’s fragile peace agreement could unravel before the transitional government wraps up early next year

The Independent UK

Sudan protesters decry violence in southern state

Security forces fired tear gas as Sudanese protesters marched in the capital Khartoum on Sunday against the country's military leadership, holding it responsible for an outbreak of violence in Blue Nile State.

Reuters

Sudan Forces Fire Tear Gas at Protests as Death Toll from Tribal Clashes Rises

Police fired tear gas in Sudan's capital Khartoum Sunday against hundreds of anti-coup protesters who also called attention to increasingly deadly tribal clashes in the country's south. The capital has been the scene of near-weekly protests since army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan launched a power grab in October last…

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Curfew declared in Sudanese towns after deadly clashes

Sudanese authorities have declared an overnight curfew in two towns in southeastern Blue Nile state, close to the border with Ethiopia, after several days of tribal clashes that they said had left 31 people dead and 39 injured.

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Sudan: 31 Killed in Tribal Clashes in Blue Nile Province

At least 31 people were killed in tribal clashes in a Sudanese southern province, authorities said, the latest bloodshed in a country in turmoil since an October military coup. The fighting between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province grew out of the killing of a…

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US Congress Supports Sudanese in their Democratic Aspirations

The US House passed a resolution condemning last October’s military coup in Sudan and calling for restoring the country’s constitutional leaders. The bill was unanimously approved in the Senate and House of Representatives. Democratic Representative Kathy Manning said the Sudanese junta has aligned itself with the Kremlin and given Russian…

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Troika Calls on Sudanese Forces to Form a Civilian-led Cabinet

The Troika countries, the US, UK and Norway, and the EU called on military leaders in Sudan to cease participation in political talks, urging an end to violence against civilians. It encouraged all political actors committed to the democratic transition to engage swiftly in an inclusive dialogue to form a…

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Morocco: Melilla Migrants Likely Died of 'Suffocation'

At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely "suffocated", Morocco's state-backed CNDH rights group said on Wednesday. The death toll after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier on June 24 was the worst…

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Woman, 20, faces death by stoning for cheating on her husband in first case for a decade

Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, was arrested in Sudan's White Nile state last month before being found guilty of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning on June 26 - a decision she hopes to have overturned by the country's High Court

Daily Mirror

Khartoum Democracy Activists Lift Half of Sit-Ins

Organizers of Khartoum's sit-ins, begun 10 days ago to force Sudan's army to return power to civilians, announced Monday that they had dismantled two of their four camps. The protests began after security force killed nine demonstrators in anti-coup rallies by tens of thousands on June 30, according to pro-democracy…

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Sudan Protesters Mark Eid Al-Adha at Anti-army Sit-in

Sudanese protesters celebrated Eid al-Adha among barricades on Saturday during a sit-in against military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his October coup. Protesters have continued to press the army chief to resign, days after he vowed to make way for a civilian government -- an offer quickly rejected by the…

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Akon Baak to represent Australia at World Taekwondo Cadet Championships

Akon Baak is the daughter of a South Sudanese refugee, being coached by an Afghan refugee in a Korean sport that she first tried in Scotland — and now this 13-year-old is going to represent Australia in taekwondo.

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Sudan Activists to Unite under 'Revolutionary Council'

Pro-democracy groups in Sudan announced a "revolutionary council" Thursday to close ranks against coup leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rejecting his offer of a civilian government, as protesters keep pressing for his resignation. Burhan led a coup in October last year that derailed a transition to civilian rule, unleashing near-weekly…

Reuters

Nine killed including five Sudanese in bus crash in southern Egypt

Nine people including five Sudanese citizens were killed and 43 people were injured in a road collision in southern Egypt early on Thursday, a senior health ministry official said.

Al Jazeera

Sudan protesters sceptical military will step aside

Civilian blocs and resistance committees are rushing to build a new front to assume executive functions.

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Sudan's Burhan relieves civilian members of the sovereign council from duties -statement

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan issued a decree relieving the five civilian members of the sovereign council from their duties, a statement on the council's telegram account said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Sudan's opposition guarded on army pledge to leave talks to civilians

Sudanese political parties sidelined by a coup last October gave a guarded response on Tuesday to the army's pledge to step aside from a dialogue initiative and let civilian groups hold talks to form a government.

Reuters

Ethiopian PM says he has agreed with Sudanese leader to settle dispute

Ethiopia's prime minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday he had reached an agreement with the leader of neighbouring Sudan to peacefully settle a border dispute that has led to clashes.

The Independent UK

Sudan's doctors: 11 wounded in crackdown on anti-coup sit-in

A Sudanese medical group says 11 people were wounded when security forces descended on their sit in to try and disperse the anti-military protest in the capital, Khartoum

Tribune News Service

Sudan’s army says political groups will pick new government

Sudan’s military said it will withdraw from internationally mediated talks to allow political factions to pick a new government, signaling a compromise after eight months of crisis sparked by a 2021 coup.

France 24

Sudan's Burhan says army is stepping back to allow for civilian government

Days after one of the bloodiest crackdowns on protests against Sudan's military coup, the head of the army has announced the dissolution of the governing sovereign council to make way for a civilian leadership. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says the military will not participate in talks brokered by the UN and…

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s General al-Burhan says army stepping back from government

Nine killed in recent anti-military rule protests, with protesters skeptical that the armed forces will now step aside.

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