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Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | A delegation comprised of officials from France, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union on Friday called on Sudanese authorities to end the state of emergency. In a statement issued after a visit to Khartoum, the delegation called for immediate progress …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | A comprehensive dialogue among the Sudanese political forces is scheduled to be held from May 10 to May 12, African Union (AU) Special Envoy to Sudan Mohamed El Hacen Ould Lebatt announced on Wednesday. The dialogue was brokered by a tripartite mechanism of the United Nations, …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Sudan on Sunday reaffirmed its ownership of the disputed Fashaga district on the border with Ethiopia. “Fashaga is a Sudanese land,” acting Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq told visiting UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Hanna Tetteh, according to a statement by Sudan’s foreign …

Khartoum, Sudan | XINHUA |  The Revolutionary Front alliance, which brings together several armed groups in Sudan, on Saturday welcomed Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan’s decision to create a suitable atmosphere for dialogue. Al-Burhan announced in a speech in Khartoum on Friday that he would take …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Sunday called on the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) to keep the same distance from all parties amid the ongoing political crisis in the country. His remarks came during a meeting with the …

Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | The Sudanese General Intelligence Service (GIS) on Thursday freed 18 foreigners held by a human trafficking group in eastern Sudan’s Gadaref State. “The national intelligence service in Gadaref state managed to stop a human trafficking network today (Thursday) and freed 18 Ethiopian nationals from a criminal …

United Nations | Xinhua | The top UN envoy for Sudan warned Monday that the country may risk sliding into an economic and security collapse and a worse humanitarian crisis. “The stakes are high. The aspirations of Sudanese women and men for a prosperous, civilian-led, democratic future are at risk. Unless …

United Nations | Xinhua | A Chinese envoy on Monday called for the lifting of sanctions against Sudan as soon as possible. Following the withdrawal of the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region, the Sudanese authorities have assumed the primary responsibility of protecting civilians. It is, therefore, urgent …

Markets are witnessing an economic stagnation under lack of purchasing power and unprecedented hike in the prices of basic commodities Khartoum, Sudan | Xinhua | Concerns are growing that the economy in Sudan would further deteriorate amid the continued decline of the national currency Sudanese pound, the unprecedented rising prices of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has called for free and fair elections in Sudan.  Museveni said that political actors must rely on numbers and not tribes to win if it is to achieve unity and end the current political crisis. President Yoweri Museveni made the remarks on …