[Dabanga] El Fasher / the Hague -- The first trial by the International Criminal Court on the massive crimes committed in Darfur is finally underway. Ali Kushayb, the well-known Janjaweed leader, will face charges of war crimes and crimes against hum...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- The Khartoum Criminal Court charged the former head of Sudan's disbanded National Congress Party and former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, alongside 12 others, for inciting war against the state, on Sunday.

[Dabanga] Tawila / North Darfur -- Five herders were killed, and others were seriously injured in a shooting by gunmen in the Tawila locality of North Darfur state, on Saturday. According to local sources in Tawila, after the armed assailants fired t...

[Dabanga] Port Sudan -- The Red Sea Electricity Department announced the departure of the Turkish powership, MV Karadeniz Powership Rauf Bey, due to the government's failure to meet the ship's financial obligations of 10 million Euros. The floating p...

[SudaNow] Khartoum -- These are summations of three press commentaries on the week's most important events. The three articles have dwelt on:

[SNA] Juba -- Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo received at his residence in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, in the presence ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Benishangul-Gumuz border trade checkpoint, which connects Kurmuk with Sudan, was officially reopened on 31 March.

[Dabanga] Khartoum / New York -- The head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, threatened to expel the head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, accusing him of "overstepping the...

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Dongola / El Gedaref / Wad Madani / Por -- The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors announced that one protestor was killed, and dozens were injured during the March of the Millions in Khartoum, on Thursday. Eisam Hasab al-Rasoul (...

[Dabanga] Nyala -- Currently in the fourth day of unrest, the conflict between the tribesmen was sparked by the decision to demarcate the borders between tribes. The decision was issued by the Committee to Address the Situation in Eastern Sudan, head...

[VOA] Washington -- Years after atrocities took place in Sudan's Darfur region, one of the key suspected perpetrators is about to face trial.

[Dabanga] The Hague -- 15 years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Ali Muhammed Abd-Al-Rahman (better known as "Ali Kushayb"), he now prepares to stand trial in The Hague on 5 April 2022. The trial will be t...

[Dabanga] South Kordofan -- An armed gang of motorcyclists shot and killed a passenger in a commercial convoy, before looting SDG43 million worth of goods from them in South Kordofan, on Tuesday.

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- The head of Sudan's Sovereignty Council, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, dissolved the board of trustees for public universities, dismissed 30 of their directors, and appointed his own choices in their stead. In an interview with Rad...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- A journalist working for Al-Jarida newspaper, Mab Mirghani, was arrested and intimidated by the security forces for covering the protest events at Khartoum's open-air market (Souq al-Arabi), on Wednesday.

[Dabanga] Nyala -- At least 10 people were killed and two villages were burned in clashes between the Fallata and Rizeigat tribesmen in South Darfur's capital of Nyala, on Wednesday. Now in the third day of unrest, the conflict between the tribesmen ...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Coronavirus lockdowns have contributed to "soaring rates" of sexual and gender-based violence across Africa, says a new report. And "almost all actors" in the continent's armed conflicts use sexual violence as a tactic of war...

[Dabanga] Khartoum / New York -- The Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) "should focus on the other basic aspects of its mandate, instead of focusing most of its activitie...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- More than 70 demonstrators were injured during Monday's March of the Millions in Khartoum, which is part of the peaceful revolutionary escalation to resist the coup announced by the coordination of the Resistance Committees in t...

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[Dabanga] El Daein -- At least 20 people have been reported killed in renewed clashes between Fallata and Rizeigat tribesmen in South Darfur on Monday and Tuesday, following the killing of an officer from the Rapid Support Forces on Thursday on the S...

[Dabanga] Khartoum -- The member countries of Friends of Sudan have reiterated their strong support for the combined efforts of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission to Sudan (UNITAMS), the African Union (AU), and the Intergovernmental Auth...

[Dabanga] El Geneina -- Eight people including two children were injured in a fire at the Shelter Centre for the Displaced in El Zahraa School in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur yesterday.

[Dabanga] Amsterdam / Khartoum -- Journalism and media training is hard to come by in Sudan, with many schools and universities closed, and others struggling with factors such as economic constraints, limited capacity, and political upheavals.

[HRW] Landmark Case of 'Janjaweed' Militia Leader Opens April 5

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Bahri / Omdurman -- The main and secondary streets of the three main cities of Khartoum state, saw mass protests again on Saturday and Sunday as part of the peaceful revolutionary escalation to resist the coup announced by the co...

[Dabanga] El Fasher -- The rate of armed robberies committed against travellers in North Darfur has increased significantly this year, owing to the deteriorating security situation which has left Darfur vulnerable to crime.

[Dabanga] ED Damazin -- A guard vehicle escorting members of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) was involved in a traffic accident on Monday, leaving one dead and two injured in Blue Nile state capital, Ed Damazin.

[State Department] Following is a joint statement on the UNITAMS-AU-IGAD Facilitated Political Process issued by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kin...

[Dabanga] New York -- The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (STSG) for Sudan, and head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sudan's deteriora...