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Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.) Other Facts Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is now the third largest, after Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sudan lost most of its oil reserves, estimated to be between five and seven billion barrels, when South Sudan seceded. The United Nations has called the Sudan/Darfur conflict one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Between 2003 and 2008, at least 300,000 people were kille...

Toll from tribal violence in Sudans West Darfur reaches 129 ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Tue, Jan 19 2021 11:06 IST | ​ 0 Views   Toll from tribal violence in Sudans West Darfur reaches 129 (Credit: twitter.com/UNOCHA). Image Source: IANS News Khartoum, Jan 19 : The death toll due to the bloody tribal violence which broke up in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudans West Darfur State, has increased to 129, while the number of the injured stood at 198, according to authorities. In a st...

What does surge of Darfur violence mean for Sudan peace? AFP 1/18/2021 AFP © - Sudanese women in December protested the end of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, where violence has erupted again claiming more than 130 lives Days of inter-ethnic fighting in Sudans Darfur region leaving almost 140 dead and 50,000 people displaced have cast shadows over hopes the war-ravaged region was heading towards peace. While the ex-rebel forces who signed an October pe...

A Second Chance For Sudan January 6, 2021 | By Alberto M. Fernandez With one exception, the Trump administration certainly did not distinguish itself when it comes to Africa.[1] But that exception, Sudan, is an important one. Through a bulldozer intensity focused on helping make peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, through seemingly crude pressure and clumsy creativity, the administration came through with three great deliverables for Khartoums transitional government: removing Sudan f...

December 31 - 2020 KHARTOUM JEM leader Jibril Ibrahim (File photo) The leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Jibril Ibrahim, called for the formation of a Special Court for Crimes Committed in Darfur during a meeting with Chief Justice, Nemat Abdallah Kheir, in Khartoum yesterday. He also called for more women to be appointed as judges in this court so that cases of gender-based violence are dealt with fairly “in this critical stage” of the transitio...

Text size The long-running UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur came to an end on December 31, under a peace deal signed by Sudans government and rebels. On Sunday, a little over two weeks later, state media reported that two days of tribal clashes in the West Darfur capital El Geneina have killed at least 48 people. Here is a recap of the situation in Darfur where the UN says the brutal civil war that erupted in 2003 killed at least 300,000 people, mostly during its initial ye...

December 28 - 2020 EL FASHAGA / EL GUREISHA Ethiopian soldiers (Wikipedia) The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) have reclaimed territory from Ethiopian army soldiers and militiamen in eastern Sudan’s El Gedaref. Jibril Ibrahim, head of the Justice and Equality Movement, said his rebels are willing to join the SAF in the disputed border area. SAF Deputy Chief-of-Staff Lt Gen Majdi Osman said on Al Arabiya news channel that the army recaptured half of the lands occupied by Ethi...

December 21 - 2020 SIRBA Combatants of the Darfuri rebel Justice and Equality Movement (Aberfoyle International Security) In West Darfur, two leaders of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were killed, and six others were wounded, in an ambush carried out by gunmen in Kondobe village in Sirba locality on Saturday evening. The two dead have been named as Adam Hamid, second in command of Jebel Moon locality, and Mahdi Abdelshafi. Mutasim Saleh, the official spokesman f...

December 18 - 2020 KHARTOUM The Transitional Partners Council (TPC) held its first session at the Republican Palace in Khartoum yesterday to clarify working regulations, according to amendments made to the Constitutional Document under the Juba Peace Agreement, signed on October 3. The first session of the TPC was chaired by Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok, and representatives of the parties to the political agreement...

Sudan Fast Facts CNN Editorial Research © AFP/Getty Images An image grab taken from AFP TV on January 17, 2019, shows people chanting and shouting during a protest calling for the resignation of the Sudanese President in the capital Khartoum. - Sudanese police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters marching towards the presidential palace demanding President Omar al-Bashirs resignation. Protesters chanting "Freedom, peace, justice" gathered in central Khartoum and began the...