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On Wednesday evening, a group of armed people in civilian clothes tried to storm the home of Wajdi Saleh, who was the head of the now-dissolved Empowerment Removal Committee* (ERC), a leading member of the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, and an outspoken opponent of the ousted Al Bashir regime.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to build a new port in the Red Sea in Sudan as part of a new investment deal between the two countries, the first such sig

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to build a new port in the Red Sea in Sudan as part of a new investment deal between the two countries, the first such significant foreign investment since the end of Al Bashirs regime. World News | China Aims to Scuttle Sudan-UAE Port Deal.

The first US Ambassador to Khartoum in 25 years, John Godfrey, denies that junta leader Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan’s participation in the 77th session of United Nations General Assembly, signifies a new page in relations ith the West and the USA. However, remarks by Godfrey in an interview regarding Sudan’s relations with Russia have met with sharp criticism from the Russian Embassy in Khartoum.

After a two-week-long workshop series organised by the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a group of Sudanese women presented a new unified gender-responsive constitutional vision. Meanwhile, the Sudanese Professionals Association rejected the recent draft constitution proposed by the Sudanese Bar Association (SBA).

During a raid by police and other security forces on the Abu Saeed neighbourhood in Wad Al Bashir in Omdurman on Monday, Shireen Hasan Abbas (18) was shot dead in front of her family’s home. Locals say unpunished violent behaviour is normal during police raids and believe that they are targeted because of their ethnic and tribal background.

More than twenty-five South Sudanese refugees families are have been left without shelters in Khartoum after the Sudanese police burnt down their makeshift huts.

African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) expressed its deep concerns over the continued violation of human rights by law enforcers in Sudan, especially in West Darfur. The organisation highlights various examples of killings, detentions, illegitimate use of the Emergency Law, and other rights abuses, often involving the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The Steering Committee of the Sudan Bar Association intends to hold meetings with the various groups that participated in the drafting of a new version of the transitional constitution. Lawyer Ali Geiloub, head of the SBA steering committee, said in a press conference yesterday that they received the latest version of the transitional constitution from the Committee of Experts on Monday.

The chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, has asked the United Kingdom in a speech on Tuesday to provide an official apology for crimes committed during the British colonial era. He also denied rumours saying that the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will take up arms against each other.