Tag: #Khartoum
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Sudan PM Agrees to Regional Meeting on Ethiopia Conflict
The Sudan PM has agreed to a regional meeting on the Ethiopia Conflict.
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Sudan Foreign Aid Deal to Give Cash to Poor Families
The Sudan foreign aid deal will give cash to poor families.
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Sudan’s first female football stars push for women’s rights
Khartoum, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): Within months of Sudan’s first women’s football league kicking off, the championship’s emerging stars are being hailed as icons for equal rights in a country transitioning to civilian rule. Orjuan Essam, 19, and Rayan Rajab, 22, of Khartoum-based Tahadi women’s club, have scored several goals already in a tournament that would…
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Sudanese women hope new government ends flogging, violence
Khartoum, Nov 25 (AFP/APP): Nine years after a Sudanese judge oversaw her flogging, Halima Abdalla remains broken and bitter, accusing even her family of rejecting her when it mattered most. “Flogging breaks you from inside,” said Abdalla, 41, her voice choking and tears rolling down her cheeks as she narrated an ordeal that remains forensically…
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Arab fund offers $305 mln loan to cash-starved Sudan
Khartoum, Nov 15 (AFP/APP): Sudan said Thursday it would receive a $305 million loan from an Arab fund to help tackle the country’s worsening economic crisis led by soaring food prices and foreign currency shortage. Sudan’s economic woes had led to nationwide protests that resulted in the ouster of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir in April.…
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Sudan’s Bashir, aides to face charges for ‘plotting’ 1989 coup
Khartoum, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Sudanese authorities on Tuesday filed new charges against ousted leader Omar al-Bashir and some of his aides for “plotting” the 1989 coup that brought him to power, the country’s protest movement said. Bashir, who was a brigadier at the time, seized power in an coup that toppled the then elected government…
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Sudan protest group has ‘no objection’ to handing Bashir to ICC
Khartoum, Nov 4 (AFP/APP): The protest movement that led to the ouster of Sudan’s longtime president Omar al-Bashir said Sunday it was not against handing over the deposed autocrat to the International Criminal Court to be tried for genocide. Bashir, who was ousted by the army in April after a nationwide agitation against his rule,…
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Sudan shuts border with Libya, C.Africa over security concerns
Khartoum, Sept 26 (AFP/APP):Sudan Thursday ordered the closure of its borders with Libya and Central African Republic over security concerns, the country’s ruling body announced, the first such decision since the fall of autocrat Omar al-Bashir. The decision was taken by the civilian-military sovereign council at a meeting in Niyala, the capital of South Darfur…