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Sudan: TSC Member Dr. Nawara Directs Comprehensive Follow-Up of Repercussions of Howaid Mine Accident in Red Sea State
– Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Dr. Nawara Abu Mohamed Mohamed Tahir, has directed the relevant authorities, particularly the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company and security authorities, to take urgent action to follow up...

Sudan: UN Warns Of Soaring Displacement And Looming Floods
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 8:19 am Press Release: UN News 1 July 2025 At Tuesday’s regular briefing at the UN Headquarters, in New York, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric relayed warnings from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs...

Sudanese fleeing war are at risk of worsening hunger in neighboring nations, UN warns
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Sustainable development financing conference opens in Seville
Amid international crises ranging from climate change to war and poverty, world leaders came together in the southern Spanish city of Seville on Monday for a four-day conference on sustainable development and how to solve the world's crises. The...

AFRICA/SUDAN - Insecurity and lack of services worsen the situation in the capital: teachers disagree in the reopening of schools
Tuesday, 1 July 2025 Internet Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Most areas of Khartoum are without electricity and water, exacerbating the country's already precarious security situation and the lack of other services such as internet and...

KSrelief Launches Vital Kidney Dialysis Project for Sudanese Patients in Egypt
Dozens of international charities and non-governmental organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty, called Tuesday for an Israeli and US-backed aid mechanism for Gaza to disband over repeated incidents of chaos and deadly...

June 30: A watershed moment in the history of the Sudanese revolution – ‘will to change is still alive’
Political and civil entities in Sudan issued a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 30, 2019 March of the Millions, stressing that “the will to change is still alive”. The statement, signed 19 political and civil entities,...

Call for urgent investigation as Sudan mine collapse claims ‘at least 11’ lives
Several parties have called for an urgent investigation into the collapse of the Karsh El Fil mine in the Howaid area of Sudan’s Red Sea state, while the foreign ministries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, and other countries, as...

We’re not in ‘business’ of regime change or redrawing maps, says Israeli ambassador to India
Gurugram: Israel is not in the “business” of changing regimes or redrawing maps in West Asia like Turkey or Iran, said Reuven Azar, the Israeli ambassador to India at ThePrint’s Off The Cuff Monday. “We are not in the business of redrawing the map...

President Sisi stresses Egypt support for Sudan's unity, sovereignty, stability
Tue 01 Jul 2025 | 08:28 AM President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received this evening in El Alamein City, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council. Ambassador Mohamed El-Shenawy, the official spokesman for...

Egypt’s Economy Sees Strong GDP Growth in Q3 Amid Global Challenges
Egypt’s economy has demonstrated recovery by recording a GDP growth rate of 4.77% in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2024/2025 as reported by the Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation on Monday 30 June. This...

WFP: Sudanese refugees face worsening hunger due to funding gap
The World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday warned that millions of Sudanese people who took refuge in neighbouring countries face worsening hunger and malnutrition due to severe funding shortages. While giving a briefing in New York on Monday,...

Ksenia Samotiy: Opinions won’t untangle thick webs of war, but listening carefully to those affected is a start
Coming from Ukraine, people expect me to understand all wars, but I can’t speak for the people of Gaza, Sudan or Iran because that’s not my lived experience The Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin’s city centre lit in the colours of the Ukrainian...

Losing a baby, rescuing a child and dodging air strikes in Sudan's civil war
Anne SoyDeputy Africa editor ShareSave Aged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan's western region of Darfur. "I was bleeding on the way," she told the BBC, before hastening...

Sudan: FAO scales up emergency response with seed distribution campaign targeting 7.5 million people
Rome/Port Sudan – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a large-scale emergency seed distribution campaign targeting 1.5 million farming households – or approximately 7.5 million people – across 17 out of...

Sudan Gold Mine Collapse Kills 11 in Red Sea State
At least 11 miners died and seven others were injured when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Sudan, the state-run Mineral Resources Company confirmed on Sunday. The incident took place at the Kersh al-Feel site in the Houeid region, located...

Culture workers feel the pain of Sudan’s endless civil war
Sudan’s brutal civil war—driven by a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—has devastated the country for the past two years. UN and human rights organisations report war crimes,...

Latest Trump executive order lifts economic sanctions on Syria to 'promote peace'
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to end decades-old economic sanctions on Syria in “an effort to promote and support the country’s path to stability and peace,” according to White House Press Secretary...

U.S. Policy on Sudan Disproportionately Hurts Civilians
As the war in Sudan enters its third year, experts, activists and other community members say recent U.S. foreign policy is hurting, not helping, civilians. This month, the Trump administration banned Sudanese nationals, in addition to 11 other...

Who will feed Sudanese refugees?
Millions of Sudanese who have fled to neighbouring countries face the risk of hunger. The World Food Programme has sounded an alarm, saying it may have to reduce its aid operations for Sudanese refugees because of cutbacks in its funding. Four...