by Ahmed Younis | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East
Khartoum – The Sudanese government hopes that US economic sanctions will be lifted by July 12. This date was set by the US administration according to the executive order issued by former US President Barack Obama, stipulating lifting the sanctions partially...
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...
by Khalid Mahmoud | Feb 23, 2017 | World
Cairo – Somalia’s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, widely known as Farmajo, officially took office on Wednesday, promising his people that the era of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab and other Islamist militant groups was over. In his speech, Farmajo reached...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 16, 2017 | Middle East
New York- A confidential U.N. report is warning that the war in South Sudan has reached “catastrophic proportions for civilians” and the rise of militias risks spinning out of control, fueling fighting for years to come. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio...
by Mustafa Sirri | Jan 26, 2017 | Middle East
South Sudan strongly denied the existence of a diplomatic crisis with its neighbour Ethiopia and refuted news stories about Juba hosting the Ethiopian opposition in coordination with Egypt in order to work against Addis Ababa, and called this rumour a big lie. A...
