MANY parts of the world were in festive mood this Wednesday marking  Christmas, but thousands of Australian volunteers were at war, fighting hundreds of fires ravaging their country.

At least 24 people were confirmed killed after a camp for internally displaced people was attacked in Sudan’s West Darfur, an international peacekeeping official said on Wednesday, as top officials arrived to try to calm the violence. Krinding Camp, just east of state capital el-Geneina, was raided on Dec. 29-30 following a dispute between Arab […]

A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 intelligence agents to death for torturing and killing a protester early this year, an AFP correspondent said. The defendants were found guilty of torturing to death Ahmed al-Kheir Awadh at an intelligence services facility and sentenced to be hanged, judge Sadok Albdelrahman said. The teacher was beaten and […]

A Sudanese court on Saturday convicted former president Omar al-Bashir on corruption charges and sentenced him to two years of detention in a reform facility, the first ruling against the ex-leader ousted by mass unrest. The presiding judge said Bashir, 75, who was deposed by the military in April following months of street protests against […]

For almost three decades, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ruled Sudan with a heavy fist, jailing opponents and former allies, overseeing the bloody suppression of the Darfur region and squashing protests that dared to challenge his regime. But on Saturday, Mr. al-Bashir, 75, was convicted and sentenced to two years in detention in a much-anticipated trial […]

Sudan’s Transitional Government on Wednesday resumed peace talks in Juba, South Sudan capital, with various armed opposition groups that fought against the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. The Deputy Head, Sudan Transitional Council, Mohamed Hamdan-Daqlu, said they aimed to reach a comprehensive peace agreement with the opposition groups under the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), […]

  Sudan has promised to pay money to families of victims of the 1998 US embassies bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that his country will give the compensation in a few weeks. However, […]

Within months of Sudan’s first women’s football league kicking off, the championship’s emerging stars are being hailed as icons for equal rights in a country transitioning to civilian rule. Orjuan Essam, 19, and Rayan Rajab, 22, of Khartoum-based Tahadi women’s club, have scored several goals already in a tournament that would have seemed unlikely when […]

Sudan for the first in the country’s history appoints a female as its chief justice. The Sovereign Council, which is made up of civilian and military officials, confirmed that Supreme Court judge Neemat Abdulllah would head the country’s judiciary. Egypt resumes Nile dam talks with Ethiopia, Sudan Nigeria humble Sudan 5 nil to qualify for […]

Sudan began the trial on Wednesday of 41 security agents accused of involvement in the death of a teacher held in custody, a lawyer said.

The world is empathising with the Sudanese nationalists as they watch them move from one phase of the ongoing struggle to another

Sudan needs $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild its ravaged economy after months of political turmoil, its new prime minister said on Saturday, according to Reuters report. Abdalla Hamdok, sworn in three days earlier to head a transitional government after the ousting of […]

The Republic of Sudan has called on the international community to support the implementation of its historic final political agreement and constitutional document signed in Khartoum on the 17th, of August 2019 between the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Civilian Alliance Forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change (FFC).

Sudan’s first ever women’s club football league will start next month, a federation official told AFP Wednesday.

Sudan’s military said Wednesday it had arrested a top general and several others over a foiled coup attempt announced earlier this month.