It was another bloody day in the Sudanese capital as a child and a doctor were killed in anti-government protests calling for an end to President Omar al-Bashir’s decades-long rule, witnesses and medical sources confirmed. The central committee of Sudanese doctors said the two died at Royal Care International Hospital[…]
Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern town of Kassala, the first demonstrations in the city since anti-government protests spread across the country last month. The protest erupted in the city’s largest market on Wednesday and vendors scrambled to shut their stalls and[…]
Sudanese police fired tear gas at crowds of anti-government protesters in Khartoum on Sunday, as organisers called for nationwide rallies against President Omar al-Bashir. Protesters chanting “peace, peace” and “revolution is the people’s choice” took to the streets in the capital’s district of Bahari, but were quickly confronted by riot[…]
Sudanese police used tear gas to disperse “illegal” protests against the 30-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir in the city of Omdurman in which three people were killed, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday. Sudan’s second-largest city “witnessed riots and illegal gatherings” on Wednesday, SUNA said, amid weeks of[…]
Sudanese authorities have arrested more than 800 demonstrators during an anti-government protest campaign over the past few weeks, Interior Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman has said. “The total number of protesters arrested until now is 816,” Osman told parliament on Monday, as reported by AFP. This is the first official figure[…]
Riot police in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, used live ammunition and tear gas in an attempt to disperse protesters marching towards the presidential palace. Videos posted online appeared to show crowds of several hundred people heading towards the palace on Tuesday, which is located on the bank of the river[…]
At least seven local government officials have been killed in a helicopter crash in Sudan’s eastern Gadarif state. The state’s governor and three security officials were among the dead, the country’s official news agency, SUNA, reported on Sunday. Governor Mirghani Salih was travelling from the city of Gadarif heading to Gallabat, Ashorooq[…]
The death sentence of a Sudanese teen convicted for killing her husband she alleges was trying to rape her was overturned on Tuesday, her lawyer said. Since being sentenced to death by hanging last month, the case of Noura Hussein, 19, has garnered international attention. Campaigners have gathered round her[…]
Ibrahim Al-Senussi, a counsellor to Sudanese president, has called on Arab Gulf states to end their disputes and achieve unity in order to confront Israel, which is occupying the Palestinian territories. “We do not appreciate the disagreement between the Gulf states and the siege imposed by the UAE, Bahrain, and[…]
Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman, was sentenced to death by a court for stabbing to death a man she was forced to marry after he raped her. The death penalty for Hussein was confirmed by a judge on Thursday after her husband’s family rejected financial compensation and insisted on[…]
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