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Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across Sudan Sunday chanting ‘civilian rule, civilian rule” as police fired tear gas in Khartoum, amid international calls for restraint to avoid a new deadly crackdown. The planned “million-man” march is being seen as a test for protest...

KHARTOUM, Jun 29 – Sudan’s ruling generals said Friday that a new, joint proposal drafted by Ethiopia and the African Union could be a base to resume negotiations with protesters on forming a transitional administration. The African Union and Ethiopia have come up with a blueprint for a …...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday demanded that deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir stand trial for the mass killings perpetrated in Darfur.... Read more via Channels Television – http://bit.ly/2IDktIB Get more World News

By Fred Oluoch The Sudan crisis could become a major contagion in the region’s security and trade and also escalate the divisions in the Gulf Peninsula manifested in the current war in Yemen.... Read more via AllAfrica News – http://bit.ly/2IQsCIo Get more World News

Amnesty International has said it has new evidence showing that the Sudan Government forces have continued to commit war crimes and other serious human rights violations on its citizens. To bring awareness to these war crimes and human rights violations, everyone is changing their avatars to a...

Social media users have reacted to the silence of the mainstream media in regards to the massacre going on in Sudan which has claimed many lives. According to tweets seen below, both male and females have been raped in the course of the massacre. One … Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s...

The Arabic version of Al-Arabiya reported on Wednesday an aborted coup in Sudan designed to upstage the Transitional Military Council. The newspaper, quoting sources in Sudan said 68 officers have been arrested and put under investigation as a result of a coup attempt. The report claimed that...

UN rights experts called Wednesday for the Human Rights Council to set up a probe into possible violations committed by Sudan’s security forces against “peaceful protesters”. Sudan is “sliding into a human rights abyss,” a group of five United Nations experts said in a joint statement. A …...

Shops began to reopen in Sudan’s capital on Wednesday after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil disobedience campaign and agreed to new talks, though many residents remained indoors following last … Read more via Capital News – http://bit.ly/2IBixPF Get more World News

Protest leaders in Sudan have rejected calls for talks with the military as the death toll from a brutal armed crackdown on peaceful protestors Monday topped 100. Medani Abbas Medani, leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces... Read more via CNN – https://cnn.it/2IoT4Zn Get...

Sudan’s army ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Tuesday the country’s military rulers had decided to cancel what they had previously agreed with protesters about the country’s transition and called for elections within nine months. It came the after Sudan’s military forcefully broke up...

Sudanese authorities on Thursday shut down news broadcaster Al Jazeera’s Khartoum office, as thousands of protesters gathered outside the country’s military headquarters to pressure the ruling generals to cede power. The sprawling military complex has become the focal point of the weeks-long...

Sudanese women who fought against Khartoum’s militarism for decades laid the foundations for Sudan’s ongoing revolution. By Nisrin Elamin and Tahani Ismail On April 10, the photograph of 22-year-old engineering student Alaa Salah chanting in front of a crowd of protesters went viral, capturing...

Sudan’s prosecutor general on Thursday ordered the questioning of deposed president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and “financing terrorism”, as protesters staged a vast rally in Khartoum to demand a civilian government. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir A source in the prosecutor...

Former President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir has been moved to Kobar maximum security prison, days after he was deposed in a military coup. Reports say the ex-leader has until now been detained at the presidential residence under heavy guard. He is reportedly being held in … Read more via...

Sudan’s military rulers have detained two of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir’s five brothers, a spokesman for the ruling army council said Wednesday.... Read more via TODAY.NG – http://bit.ly/2VZWHdO Get more World News

JUBA, South Sudan — Seated in a stifling hallway in South Sudan’s main hospital, the midwife recounted the day she watched a young mother bleed to death … -- Read more via “sexual health” – Google News http://bit.ly/2IjLcuD

Pope Francis knelt and kissed the feet of South Sudan’s rival leaders in an amazing act of humility aimed at promoting peace and to encourage unity among Africa countries torn by war. The Popes gesture cames at the close of a two-day … Read more via Channels Television –...

Awad Ibn Auf, Sudan’s defence minister and leader of the coup that ousted Omar al-Bashir, has stepped down. Mr Ibn Auf announced his decision to step down at a nationwide broadcast on Friday, saying another military general would be in charge of the country. “I hereby announce my resignation...

The head of Sudan military council has stepped down a day after long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was toppled in a coup. Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf announced his decision in a broadcast on state TV on Friday...... Read more via BBC News – https://bbc.in/2UxOXDb Get more World News