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Sudan President Omar al-Bashir Photo: ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP

Sudan’s Bashir Seeks Women’s Help in Arms Collection Campaign

by Ahmed Younes and Mustafa Sirri | Sep 22, 2017 | Middle East

Khartoum– Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir warned against refusing to voluntarily surrendering weapons, in a campaign to collect arms from tribes in war-torn Darfur. Bashir also urged women in Darfur to help in the campaign, asking them to prevent their husbands and...

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, center, shakes hands with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn after signing an agreement on the Renaissance Dam Project in Khartoum, March 23, 2015 in a bid to ease tensions over regional water supplies. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

Sudan, Egypt Agree to Resolve Pending Matters

by Ahmed Younes and Mustafa Sirri | Apr 21, 2017 | Middle East

Khartoum – Egypt and Sudan agreed on Thursday not to support opposition groups working against their respective governments, during a meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers. Relations between neighbors Cairo and Khartoum have seen some tension over the past...

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People who fled fighting in South Sudan are seen walking at sunset on arrival at Bidi Bidi refugee resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda December 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

Sudan: SPLM Releases 125 Prisoners of War

by Ahmed Younes and Mustafa Sirri | Mar 6, 2017 | World

Khartoum, London – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement announced it has freed 132 prisoners of war it had captured while fighting with government forces in Blue Nile and South Kordofan in 2011. Sudanese army said that only 125 persons have been freed, but it...