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Sudan’s opposition calls for more protests against Omar al-Bashir
Opposition groups in Sudan have called for a fresh wave of protest against the 30-year long dictatorial rule of President Omar al-Bashir. Steep price rises three weeks ago sparked widespread demonstrations in which dozens of people have been killed, many shot by government forces.
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Sudan protests continue against Bashir
The Sudanese opposition leader is under arrest – amid a crackdown on anti-government protests held across the country. Security forces fired shots into the air last night to disperse crowds in the capital, Khartoum – as demonstrations against President al-Bashir continued for a tenth day in a row. Amnesty International said at least 37 people…
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Sudan Part Two: Abducted and held in Khartoum
Part two of our report from Sudan in which our camera team were kidnapped, incarcerated and tortured after attempting to report from the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Sudan interview: Khalid Al Mubarak and Rosalind Marsden
Earlier I spoke with Khalid Al Mubarak, who is the press attache to the Embassy of Sudan in London, and Dame Rosalind Marsden who was the British Ambassador to Sudan, followed by becoming the EU Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan. She’s now an associate fellow at Chatham House.
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Channel 4 News filmmakers reveal six week ordeal in Sudanese detention
In December 2016, freelance journalist Phil Cox and Darfuri author Daoud Hari were abducted while travelling in Sudan to film an investigation into human rights abuses.
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South Sudan famine risk
South Sudan is, of course, the world’s newest nation state, but it’s also quite a rich country. Oil-rich at the time of independence, it was exporting 360,000 barrels of crude every day. It has had billions in aid, not least from the Obama administration, but globally as well. And yet according to the UN, it’s…
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South Sudan famine – more aid promised
The UK has pledged more funding to ease the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
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Famine threat in South Sudan
More than one and a half million people have been forced to flee their homes in South Sudan over the last few months – in what the UN says is the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.
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South Sudan: thousands starving as government buys weapons
More than a hundred thousand people are already on the verge of starvation.
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Civil war in South Sudan
South Sudan is the world’s youngest nation but also one of its bloodiest. Founded in 2013 it has spiralled into a civil war which has left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands facing famine. Today gunmen attacked a humanitarian convoy, killing two and injuring three more, in a country that no longer posses…
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Calais migrant camp battle between Sudanese and Eritreans
Hundreds of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants clashed overnight at a migrant camp in Calais, in the north of France. 21 people were wounded, of whom 14 were taken to hospital.
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Sudan army ‘raped more than 200 women and girls’
Sudan’s government has “shamefully” denied the UN access to investigate an alleged mass rape by Sudanese soldiers against hundreds of women, the US says.
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Sudanese migrant clung to bottom of motorhome
Paul Coles made a shock discovery when he arrived back from a trip to the continent – a Sudanese teenager who had clung to the bottom of his motorhome in a desperate attempt to migrate to the UK.
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Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim released for a second time
A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned is freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents.
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Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim released from jail
A 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death by a Sudanese court last month for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison, her lawyer says.
