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Sudan's army says evacuations of foreign diplomats are expected to begin
The Sudanese army said it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the U.S., Britain, China and France out of the country on military airplanes, as fighting persisted in the capital.
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Men are marched out of prison camps. Then corpses float down the river
Witnesses say bodies found on the banks of a river in Sudan tell a dark story of a new phase of ethnic cleansing across the border in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region.
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The 51% - A rocky road to equality: Sudanese women push for change after revolution
Two years on after playing a key role in the Sudanese revolution, women in the country are still struggling to change attitudes in the conservative-Muslim society. Also with the African Union having…
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Experts Warn of Food Insecurity in South Sudan That Could Lead to Famine
Three U.N. organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where people have run out of food and are facing catastrophic levels of hunger, according to a report on food insecurity in the country.
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Sudan says it will stamp out child marriage and enforce ban on FGM
Sudanese authorities have announced they will end child marriage and enforce the country’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), in a major step forward for the rights of women and girls. Police officers were told on Wednesday they must inform local communities that FGM is illegal following new laws passed in July that make it punishable by up to three years in jail.
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Why Sudan's Remarkable Ancient Civilization Has Been Overlooked by History
The African nation's pyramids and other archaeological sites are only now emerging from the shadow of its more storied neighbor to the north
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Pope calls for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over Nile dam
Pope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday, urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built some 15 km (9 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, has become a major source of discord between the three countries.
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The country where black people are called slaves
The use of racial slurs in Sudan shows how deeply entrenched racism is there, writes Zeinab Mohammed Salih.
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‘Security deteriorating rapidly’ in Abyei on Sudan-South Sudan border
The security situation in the disputed area of Abyei on the Sudan-South Sudan border is deteriorating rapidly, the head of the Abyei civil society reported on Tuesday.
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Sudan protesters, army agree on constitutional declaration
Protest leaders reach 'full agreement' with military on a hard-won constitutional declaration, says AU envoy.
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Is Sudan Facing a Counterrevolution?
by Jonathan Fenton-Harvey Protestors’ bodies recovered from the River Nile, which the Sudanese military dumped there, represent a potential end to Sudan’s hard-fought-for revolution. Following week…
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Sudan death roll rises to 100 as bodies found in Nile, say doctors
The death toll from Monday's attack on the sit-in of Sudan's pro-democracy protesters has risen to 100, after 40 bodies were recovered from the River Nile, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD).
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Sudan death roll rises to 100 as bodies found in Nile, say doctors
The death toll from Monday's attack on the sit-in of Sudan's pro-democracy protesters has risen to 100, after 40 bodies were recovered from the River Nile, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD).
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Omar al-Bashir is gone. It was Sudan’s 30 years of anger that ousted him | Nesrine Malik
It was the Sudanese people who finally forced the president from power, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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'Not afraid of the government': One month of protests in Sudan
The current wave of anti-government protests has become the longest since Sudan gained independence in 1956.
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Sudan's al-Bashir tells police to limit force against protesters
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals 'for calm and restraint' while calling for government probe into deaths.
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Father receives 500 cows and two luxury cars for auctioning off child bride on Facebook
The social network is criticised for allowing a 16-year-old child bride in South Sudan to be auctioned off to the highest bidder on its platform, with her father receiving 500 cows, two luxury cars and two bikes among other gifts.
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Interpol rescues 85 child slaves from Sudan's streets and gold mines
Nearly 100 human trafficking victims have been rescued in a major police operation in Sudan, including dozens of children forced to work in illegal gold mines, Interpol said on Monday. Operation Sawiyan involved 200 Sudanese police officers who rescued 94 people, including 85 minors, from criminal networks in and around the capital, Khartoum, in an Interpol-led week-long crackdown last month, the global police organisation said.
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Sudan overturns death sentence for teen who killed rapist husband
A Sudanese court has commuted the death sentence for teenager Noura Hussein, who killed her husband after he raped her, in a case that has put a spotlight on forced child marriage and marital rape in the African nation. Her legal team told CNN on Tuesday that Hussein, now 19, has been given a five-year jail term for killing the 35-year-old man. The court ordered her family to pay 337,000 Sudanese pounds ($18,700) in "blood money" to the man's family.
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Teen sentenced to death for killing husband after he raped her
A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down. The case of Noura Hussein has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age of marriage is only 10 and marital rape is legal.
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