Calm in Taiwan Over China Masks Long-Term Concern
Amid ongoing tensions between China and Taiwan, people here in Taipei may at times strike outsiders as blasé about the threat of Chinese attack.Taiwan has been at odds with China’s Communist Party since the 1940s and, decades on, the tension is only he…
Sudan discusses ditching dollar in trade with Russia
Sudan and Russia are mulling ways to switch to national currencies in mutual settlements, Sudanese ambassador to Russia, Hassan Mohammed Elghazali Eltijani Sirraj, has told RIA Novosti news agency.According to the diplomat, the countries’ central banks…
Beijing-brokered Iran-Saudi peace lauded by Sudan’s Hemeti
Sudan’s Vice Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemeti’, welcomed the resumption of diplomatic relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia, following the four-…
Five women and children return to Sudan after Syrian detention
Five Sudanese nationals who were detained in Syria for joining the Islamic State (ISIS) returned earlier this week. The five returnees, two women and three children, are the first batch to come back from the group of Sudanese citizens detained in north…