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April 7 - 2021 EL GENEINA / KHARTOUM Victims of a violent attack in El Geneina in January 2020 (Social media) Hundreds of militants launched an attack on Abu Zur camp in El Geneina yesterday. It was the third day of violence in the West Darfur capital, despite the state of emergency declared by the state governor yesterday. Witnesses said that houses have been torched again yesterday. Radio Dabanga has so far been unable to confirm details regarding the number of victims...

March 9 - 2021 SUDAN Rally of the No To Oppression Against Women Initiative celebrating the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, December 16, 2019 (RD) International Womens Day was celebrated throughout Sudan yesterday. Various events took place and prominent women held speeches. The Darfur Bar Association (DBA), for example, called on the government to pay attention to displaced women and refugees. Nafeesa Hajar, head of the DBA, demanded the implementation of ...

March 8 - 2021 KHARTOUM / EL GEDAREF Yesterdays protest in Khartoum calling for justice in Darfur (Social media) The Khartoum Resistance Committees and the Committee to Stop the Massacres in Darfur sent a memorandum to the Council of Ministers and the Public Prosecution yesterday to demand that the state increases its authority and that all perpetrators of crimes in Darfur will be prosecuted. The memorandum called for the speedy formation of the Legislative Council, the...

March 7 - 2021 DABANGA SUDAN Women attend a workshop on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security (Sojoud Elgarrai/UNAMID) Since Sudan reached the public eye over years of civil war in Darfur, Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, under which war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide were committed, Sudanese women have been cast as the victims of physical and sexual violence in the media. While Sudanese women continue to be disproportionately affecte...

March 3 - 2021 EL GEZIRA / TOKAR El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme (Social media) El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme farmers have warned that a lack of irrigation will lead to damages to the winter crops in several sections of the project. Farmers in Tokar in eastern Sudan call for support from the Red Sea government.  Farmer and member of the Emergency Committee of El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme Faroug El Badawi told Radio Dabanga th...

Jordan: Facts and Figures - January – December 2020 Format Pandemics and their impact Many people would agree that the last major pandemic to hit the world before COVID-19 was the Spanish flu of 1918, which reportedly infected 500 million people—one-third of the world’s population at the time—and left an estimated 50 million persons dead worldwide. Even though the world had become much more advanced in 2020 (when COVID-19 ravaged the globe) than it was in 1918, the virus that struck sti...

February 26 - 2021 KHARTOUM PM Abdallah Hamdok gives speech at a meeting of the Sudanese Business and Employers Federation (Social media) During a speech to the leaders of the Sudanese Business and Employers Federation, Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok announced yesterday that the new government agreed on economic priorities, including the handling of the livelihood distress in the country, controlling inflation, stopping the devaluation of the national currency, attractin...

February 15 - 2021 KHARTOUM Former Vice President Hasabo Mohamed Abdelrahman visits Um Baru in North Darfur in December 2015 (RD) The Sudanese security forces carried out a campaign of arrests against former leaders of the ousted President Omar Al Bashirs regime on Thursday, as part of a campaign launched by the authorities against those responsible for inciting protesters to take the streets in a number of states. The Sudanese authorities arrested Sudan’s former Vice-...

Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced the dissolution of his Cabinet late on Sunday

February 3 - 2021 WASHINGTON / KHARTOUM US President Joe Biden (Photo: LBJ Library / Jay Godwin) A group of more than 125 organisations, human rights activists, and prominent figures in Sudan and internationally have called on US President Joe Biden to appoint an ambassador to Sudan to support normalisation of relations with the US, and to appoint a Special Presidential Envoy to prioritise and support Sudan’s transition to democracy ‘on his watch’. In an open lette...