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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansSudanese authorities have accused Britain’s ambassador to Sudan, Irfan Siddiq, of being unbalanced in regards to comments he made on the ongoing turmoil in the country.Siddiq was summoned to foreign ministry headquarters on Wednesday aft...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3.In addition to brutally beating the pro-democracy protesters, government troops also fired on the demonstrators. Early numbers suggest that at ...
·almost 5 years ago
In the last ten years or so, Africa has witnessed the fall of many long-term regimes. The governments of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and, most recently, Sudan have all been overthrown within the last decade.Ther...
·almost 5 years ago
Following attacks on peaceful protestors outside the ministry of defence in Sudan last week Monday by security forces and the civil disobedience in an attempt to get the Transitional Military Council to hand over government power to civi...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudan’s military council claims to have identified the ‘rogue’ element behind the assault on peaceful protestors and a Sudanese envoy meets with Nigeria’s head of state. The deputy chief of Sudan’s ruling military council said Thursday t...
·almost 5 years ago
The head of Sudan’s ruling military council said on Wednesday it was ready to meet an opposition alliance to negotiate the country’s transition towards democracy after talks collapsed following the deadly dispersal of a protest sit-in.“W...
·almost 5 years ago
Diplomats from the United States and the African Union have intensified pressure on Sudan’s transitional military council that is currently working to resolve a standoff with protesters.The diplomatic push comes after protesters demandin...
·almost 5 years ago
Dubbed the "millions march", Sunday's mass demonstrations were the first since security forces on June 3 killed more than 100 people during the bloody dispersal of a protest camp outside the military headquarters, the focal point of the ...
·almost 5 years ago
At least 11 people were killed in clashes with Sudan's security forces during mass demonstrations demanding a transition to civilian rule, Sudanese activists said Monday. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital,...
·almost 5 years ago
In recent times, Guinea-Bissau has made promising political gains despite a long history of coups. This was reflected most clearly when the country held peaceful and successful legislative elections in March. Additionally, incumbent pres...
·almost 5 years ago
After series of delays, two sides sign accord creating power-sharing body; talks ongoing for constitutional declaration. Sudan's ruling generals and an alliance of opposition groups have signed an accord creating a transitional power-sha...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudan’s deposed President Omar Al-Bashir has appeared in public for the first time on Sunday when he was taken to the prosecutor's office in charge of corruption cases in Khartoum.He was taken to the prosecutor’s office to have the charg...
·almost 5 years ago