Thousands of people continued to pack the streets of Khartoum on Thursday afternoon, as protest organisers in Sudan rejected the army’s announcement that the 30-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir would be replaced by a military-led transitional council. In a statement broadcast on state TV, Sudan’s defence minister said Bashir[…]
Heavy gunfire has been heard at a protest outside the Defence Ministry in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and activists said in a statement that security forces were trying to break up the protest by force. Witnesses also said that Sudanese security forces fired tear gas at thousands of anti-government protesters demonstrating[…]
President Omar al-Bashir has declared a year-long state of emergency, dissolving his cabinet and local governments throughout the country. In a televised address on Friday, Bashir also called on Sudan’s parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to run for another term in a presidential election in 2020.[…]
Sudanese security forces arrested about two dozen opposition leaders and activists as anti-government protesters sought to reach the presidential palace to deliver a petition calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down. Chanting “freedom, peace, justice”, the protesters were confronted on Thursday in downtown Khartoum by riot police who fired[…]
Teachers, lawyers, doctors and pharmacists took to the streets of Khartoum and other parts of the country on Tuesday as protests continue against President Omar al-Bashir’s rule. Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of teachers near the education ministry protesting the death of a colleague in detention. Some demonstrators[…]
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday pledged to bolster rural development, as he seeks to pacify anti-government demonstrations, set off by a hike in the price of bread, that have rocked cities and villages. The veteran leader has been on a charm offensive with rallies across the country in a[…]
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, apparently searching for regional friends amid weeks of protests against his 30-year rule, announced on Thursday he was reopening the border with neighboring Eritrea, shut for a year. Sudanese security forces used tear gas to disperse protests in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere on Thursday, witnesses[…]
Sudan, rocked by more than a month of anti-government protests, has received economic assistance from the United Arab Emirates and offers of support from Russia and Turkey, a Sudanese official said on Wednesday. The UAE offered unspecified help, while Russia and Turkey pledged fuel, wheat and other aid, Sudan’s Oil[…]
At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of the year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, according to authorities. The highly contagious H1N1 virus that spreads from human-to-human killed around 1,100 people and infected 15,000 across the country[…]
Sudanese police fired live ammunition at mourners outside the home of a protester who died early on Friday from a gunshot wound sustained the night before. About 2,000 mourners gathered in the Burri neighbourhood where the man, Moawia Bashir Khalil, 60, was shot on Thursday. According to local reports, Khalil was killed inside[…]
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