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Sudanese Minister Accuses Bashir’s Regime of ‘Fueling Tribal Conflicts’

The Minister of Federal Government in Sudan, Buthaina Dinar, accused the regime of ousted president Omar al-Bashir of fueling bloody conflicts between civil societies in the country’s states. In a Sunday press conference in Khartoum, Dinar said that the government and security services should conduct a transparent investigation into all…

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Sudan's Opposition Accuses Hemedti of 'Eluding' to Remain in Power

Sudan's Vice President of the Sovereign Council Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, voiced support to the army's measures to withdraw from politics. Some opposition factions considered that Hemedti's position was not new, saying it was one of the military tactics to remain in power. Hemedti, also the Rapid Support…

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Sudan Raises Petrol, Diesel Prices

Petrol prices in Sudan rose on Saturday by 90 Sudanese pounds to 760 pounds ($1.34) per litre, the country’s oil ministry said in a statement. Diesel prices increased by 108 pounds to 748 pounds per liter. There were repeated fuel price hikes last year as Sudan completed a process of…

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Clashes in Sudan’s Blue Nile leave thousands stranded without aid

Refugees in the Blue Nile say their conditions are becoming increasingly desperate as help fails to arrive.

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Ex-Sudanese Minister: Constitutional Document Consolidated Army’s Authority

Sudan’s Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) acknowledged that the greatest challenge facing the interim constitutional document is the army’s unwillingness to allow a full democratic transition in the North African nation coupled with a weak civilian government. Last October, Sudan's ruling council head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced the dissolution…

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World Bank to Fund $100 Million in Food Insecurity Aid to Sudan Through WFP

The World Bank has agreed to provide the UN's World Food Program with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday. The program, whose funding comes from the European Union, United Kingdom, and several other nations, aims…

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World Bank to fund $100 million in food insecurity aid to Sudan through WFP

The World Bank has agreed to provide the U.N.'s World Food Programme with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday.

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Death Toll from Sudan Ethnic Clashes Rises to 105

Ethnic clashes in a deadly land dispute in Sudan's Blue Nile state has killed 105 people and wounded 291, the state's health minister said Wednesday, providing a new toll. Fighting broke out in the southern state which borders Ethiopia and South Sudan on July 11 between members of the Berti…

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Sudan Official: Death Toll from Days of Tribal Clashes at 79

Days of tribal clashes in a southern province in Sudan have killed at least 79 people, a senior Sudanese official said Tuesday as violent protests erupted in two nearby provinces in the East African nation. The clashes between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province grew…

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Deadly Sudanese tribal clashes prompt Khartoum street protests

In tonight's edition: Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people have set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities following a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south. Meanwhile, Italy’s PM Mario Draghi is in Algeria where an energy deal is being signed between the two countries. Finally,…

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Tear gas fired as deadly Sudanese tribal clashes prompt Khartoum street protests

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas as thousands of Hausa protesters marched in central Khartoum on Tuesday, days after tribal clashes killed dozens in southern Sudan's Blue Nile state.

Reuters

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.

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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 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

Reuters

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.

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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…

Daily Mirror

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

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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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