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AL MAFAZA, Sudan – After being carried for three kilometres through the rain and mud, Nasreen Faroug Balla finally reached the hospital. She was eight months pregnant – and going into labour. The rainy season had arrived a month earlier in July, flooding many parts of Gedaref state in eastern Sudan. Some 350,000 people were affected and hundreds of villages cut off from assistance or basic services.

Download logoAfter being carried for three kilometers in rain and mud, Nasreen finally reached the hospital. She was eight months pregnant – and going

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OTASH CAMP, Sudan – "I would go to my parents, but they would return me to my abusive husband." This is what Semira,* a 25-year-old from Sudan, recalls from her marriage, which started when she was just a child. She became a mother at 14 years old. "The violence never stopped; I simply became accustomed to it,” she told UNFPA.

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The pro-democracy demonstrators demand a return to civilian rule after last years coup led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

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Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Tuesday as they confronted thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital Khartoum, an AFP correspondent said.

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Tuesday as they confronted thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital Khartoum, an AFP correspondent said.

KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Tuesday as they confronted thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital Khartoum. Protesters chanted “No to military rule” as they marched toward the presidential palace, denouncing a coup last year led by army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan that derailed a transition to civilian rule. Burhan seized power in October