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Sudan's ruling body ratified a law banning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation, the justice ministry announced Friday, handing....
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Deaths from Covid-19 related hunger can exceed number of fatalities from virus itself, warns OxfamPoverty and hunger resulting from the novel coronavirus crisis can lead to more deaths than the disease — that has killed more than 549,000 people worldwide — itself, Oxfam warned.
Oxfam, an international confederation of 20 non-governmental organisations that work to eliminate poverty and hu....
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Sudan reshuffles government in bid to appease protestsSudan's transitional government announced a major Cabinet reshuffle Thursday, hoping to defuse public discontent over economic collapse and other crises that have tested the country's path toward democracy.....
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S. Korea to send 60,000 face masks to UN peacekeeping missions in AfricaSouth Korea plans to send 60,000 face masks to two U.N.-led peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Monday. The government unveiled the plan during....
Sudan says over 120 arrested before going to fight in LibyaSudan Sunday said security forces arrested at least 122 people, including eight children, in the western Darfur region who intended to go and fight as mercenaries in neighboring Libya's civil war.....
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to agree Nile dam in weeksEgypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will agree a deal to fill the giant Nile dam in two to three weeks, Ethiopia's water minister said Saturday, a day after leaders from the three countries and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who chairs the African Union held an online summit.....
Sudan warns window closing in Nile dam dispute, asks UN helpSudan has joined Egypt in asking the UN Security Council to intervene in a dispute over Ethiopia's newly built hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, warning that the window for the three countries to reach an agreement "is closing by the hour."....
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Western, Arab states pledge $1.5 billion for Sudan's troubled transitionWestern and Arab countries pledged $1.5 billion at a conference hosted by Germany to help Sudan ease an economic crisis hampering its transition towards democracy after the fall of autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir.....
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The Sudan Conference Presents an OpportunityA little more than a year has passed since the coup that toppled Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. On June 25, the Sudan Partnership Conference — convened by Germany in concert with Sudan, the European Union and the United Nations — will coordinate action to overcome the country's economic diffi....
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AP Interview: Egypt wants UN to avert unilateral fill of damCAIRO (AP) — Egypt wants the United Nations Security Council to "undertake its responsibilities" and prevent Ethiopia from starting to fill its massive, newly built hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile next month without an agreement, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry told The Associated Press ....
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Virus outbreak could spin 'out of control' in South SudanJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — It began with a dry cough, weakness and back pain. For Reagan Taban Augustino, part of South Sudan's small corps of health workers trained in treating COVID-19 patients, there was little doubt what he had.
Days later, hardly able to breathe, the 33-year-old doctor disco....
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Sudan says talks on Ethiopia's Nile dam fail to produce dealThe latest round of talks between three key Nile basin countries have failed to resolve a contentious dispute over construction of a giant $4.6 billion hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia, Sudan's irrigation minister said Wednesday.....
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Brands, your black box is empty of actionSo you've posted a black box on social. What's next?
The advertising industry went green for climate change, blue for Sudan and rainbow for Pride. And over the last few weeks we've gone black for Black Lives Matter. Unless brands stop and take real action, this will just be another colour added to ....
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Egypt: Ethiopia rejecting 'fundamental issues' on Nile damCAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Sudan said talks over a controversial massive Nile dam would be resumed Monday, amid Egyptian accusations that Ethiopia has sought to scrap "all agreements and deals" they had previously reached, and that "many fundamental issues" remain rejected by Ethiopia, the third party....
PIA brought back 479 bodies of Pakistanis, NA toldISLAMABAD: While the national flag carrier has brought back 479 bodies of Pakistanis, more than 100 bodies of the citizens have yet to be transported back.
The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday by Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) ....
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Sudan militia leader in custody on Darfur war crimes chargesBANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb has been arrested on war crimes charges related to the conflict in Darfur more than 13 years after a warrant was issued for him, authorities said Tuesday.
Kushayb surrended to authorities in a remote corner of northern ....
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Focus on house-to-house survey, prompt testing: Health Ministry to officials of 45 civic bodiesNew Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Monday asked officials of 45 civic bodies across 38 districts in 10 states, which account for around 78 per cent of the countrys total COVID-19 cases, to bolster house-to-house surveys, prompt testing and surveillance measures to contain the infection and redu....
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S. Korea to send rotational troops to South Sudan along with medical equipmentSouth Korea was to send additional rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan on Monday, along with medical supplies to help the African country handle the new coronavirus, the defense ministry said. The first echelon of the 12th batch for Hanbit....
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan will resume talks on disputed damThree African countries have signaled their readiness to resume negotiations on a controversial dam that will be the continent's largest. The move by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan came after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday his country is ready to return to talks.....
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Sudan's bloody tribal clashes threaten fragile transitionAn upsurge in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan has killed at least 59 people and wounded over 100 this month, heaping more pressure on the country's fragile transitional government.....
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Hundreds killed in South Sudan tribal clashes – ICRCJUBA — Hundreds of civilians, including three aid workers, were killed in a series of tribal clashes in villages in South Sudan’s vast Jonglei state, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday. The territory of South Sudan has been plagued for decades by ethnic ....
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60 S. Koreans return home from Africa on chartered flight used for troop rotationSixty South Koreans who had been stranded in Africa returned home Thursday on a chartered plane used to transport the country's rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan earlier this week, officials said. After completing the mission to airlift....
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Oxfam to close 18 offices worldwide as virus drains financesLONDON (AP) — Oxfam International, one of the world's leading aid agencies, will severely curtail its work because of the financial strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including the closure of operations in 18 countries at the potential cost of 1,450 jobs.
The organization, which current....
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Supreme Court: Victims of 1998 Al Qaeda attacks in Africa can sue SudanThe Supreme Court sided Monday with victims of Al Qaeda's 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, ruling unanimously that they were eligible for punitive damages from Sudan, which was found to have assisted the terror organization.....
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COVID-19 Arrives in Refugee CampsThe news on May 14 that two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for the coronavirus in the densely-populated camps in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, is chilling for those who have been drawing attention to the vulnerability of refugees and other displaced people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows si....
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Lockdown 4.0: Centre lists parameters for states to delineate red, orange, green zonesNew Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Sunday listed parameters such as active COVID-19 cases, doubling and fatality rates and cases per lakh population, for states and union territories to follow while categorising areas into red, orange or green zones. It also issued guidelines for delineation o....
COVID-19 confirmed in crowded UN-run camp in South SudanJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — For the first time, COVID-19 has been confirmed in a crowded civilian protection camp in South Sudan's capital, the United Nations said Tuesday, a worrying development in a country that's one of the world's least prepared for the virus' spread.
The U.N. is aware that th....
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South Korea to begin sending rotational troops to South Sudan this monthSouth Korea plans to send rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan starting this month, after months of delay due to the coronavirus, the defense ministry said Tuesday. A fresh batch of troops for its 300-strong Hanbit Unit was supposed t....
Sudan appoints first ambassador to U.S. for decadesSudan has appointed its first ambassador to the United States for almost a quarter of a century, its foreign ministry said Monday, in a move to normalise relations after decades of antagonism.....
Highest number of virus deaths in single day in PakistanISLAMABAD: As coronavirus cases surpassed the 15,000 mark with the highest number of deaths in a single day, the government on Wednesday decided to bring back 7,500 overseas Pakistanis in the first week of May.
Moreover, at the request of Afghanistan, the government decided to allow export of n....
Sudan inflation soars to above 80% as economic crisis bitesKHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan's annual inflation rate has topped 80%, the government said on Tuesday, April 28, as the country grapples with an acute economic crisis.
"The annual inflation rate reached 81.64% in March, compared to 71.36% in February," the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a sta....
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Religious freedom watchdog pitches adding India to blacklistNEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely poor records on protecting freedom to worship — while proposing to remove Sudan and Uzbekistan from that list.
The bipartisan commission, c....
Over 46,500 Pakistanis registered for repatriation, says FM QureshiISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that 46,743 stranded Pakistanis had registered themselves with Pakistan's missions for repatriation to the homeland.
Briefing a parliamentary functional committee on Covid-19 on measures being taken to facilitate the return of st....
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10 African countries have no ventilators. That's only part of the problemSouth Sudan, a nation of 11 million, has more vice presidents (five) than ventilators (four). The Central African Republic has three ventilators for its 5 million people. In Liberia, which is similar in size, there are six working machines — and one of them sits behind the gates of the US Embassy.....
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Concerns of a coup stir in Sudan as capital braces for a virus lockdownA dispute over measures to counter the coronavirus in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, has led to an open confrontation between the country's military and political leaders, underscoring the fragility of the country's transition to democracy.....
