Updates from Sudan!
May 8, 2021(WASHINGTON) – The United States Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Ambassador Donald Booth is scheduled to visit South Sudan from May 9-13, 2021.
A statement from the U.S. State Department said Booth will hold meetings with …
Continue readingMay 8, 2021 (HARARE) – A total of 17 Zimbabwean Police officers will soon be deployed for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
10 of the 17 officers heading to the world’s youngest nation are female.
According to …
Continue readingMay 8, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – The National Umma Party (NUP) Saturday criticized the appointment of a governor for the Darfur region stressing the need to have a law determining his powers before.
In a decision dated 29 April but released …
Continue readingMay 7, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government and an IMF team reached a staff-level agreement on the completion of the second review under the current Staff-Monitored Program (SMP).
On 8 March, the IMF approved the first review of a …
Continue readingMay 7, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman arrived in Khartoum on Friday for talks with Sudanese officials over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Feltman before arriving in the Sudanese capital was in …
Continue readingMay 7, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – The former hybrid peacekeeping operation in western Sudan handed over its headquarters in the capital of Central Darfur state.
The United Nations – African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) completed its mandate on 31 December …
Continue readingGeneva – An armed force wearing police uniform opened fire at a peaceful sit-in in the Al-Udayyah neighborhood in West Kordofan, Sudan Wednesday morning, which killed a woman and injured seven people, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. …
Continue readingSouth Sudan’s Presidential Affairs Minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin and the Ethiopian Ambassador to South Sudan, Nebil Mandi on Thursday discussed developments regarding the Ethiopia-Sudan border dispute, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiation and the upcoming elections in Ethiopia.
A …
Continue reading(KHARTOUM) – Volker Perthes Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, and Abdel Wahid al-Nur head of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-AW) discussed peace in Sudan in a meeting held on Thursday.
Perthes is in the South Sudanese capital Juba as …
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