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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansA number" of soldiers have been taken into custody following the killing of dozens of peaceful protesters in Khartoum last week, Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) said late Monday.In a statement published by state-run news agen...
·almost 5 years ago
Leaders of Sudan’s Alliance for Freedom and Change have agreed to end civil disobedience from Tuesday, three days after its launch. The civil disobedience campaign was launched after a crackdown on demonstrators by the militaryMahmoud Dr...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudanese 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
As Sudan’s situation quickly deters, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has stepped in after the alliance of Sudan’s main opposition groups have accepted his assistance as a mediator in stalled negotiations with the Transitional Nati...
·almost 5 years ago
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has suspended Sudan from all the organisation’s activities “until the effective establishment of a civilian-led Transitional Authority”.It also threatened to impose punitive measur...
·almost 5 years ago
The right of peaceful protest is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in December 1948. Today, this right is recognised in the constitutions of 182 countries. However, we are still far awa...
·almost 5 years ago
It may soon be harder to cross the border into any East African country without a yellow fever certificate if a new policy to reintroduce the stringent measures of old is adopted.According to the new guidelines, East Africans planning to...
·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
Sudan's ruling military council has appealed to the African Union and Ethiopia to unify their efforts in outlining a blueprint for a political transition in the crisis-hit country. On Sunday, Shams al-Din Kabashi, spokesman for TMC, sai...
·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
Sudan's ruling military council and civilian protest leaders have reached an agreement to share power for a transition period. The plan envisages a rotating presidency and civilian-military ruling council. Mediators said progress had bee...
·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
The African Union (AU) came into existence after a restructuring of its predecessor – the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It was created to build an integrated, prosperous and peaceful continent. While the AU has a clear mandate to ...
·over 4 years ago
Bafana Bafana has failed to qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup Of Nations. This follows them loosing 2-0 to Sudan on Sunday their final Group C match in Omdurman.
·about 3 years ago
South Africa is deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, which is also affecting other countries in the region, including South Sudan. We support the role of IGAD and AU in the resolution of the...
·about 10 hours ago