Sudan is due to launch an international tender for investment in ten oil and gas fields next month. The move is the second phase of a tender offered by...

The Ethiopian police arrested on Tuesday the former Director General of the state-owned Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), General Kinfe Dagnew while trying to flee to Sudan. The Ethiopian...

Sudan said today that it had reached an agreement with the United States on a second phase of talks aimed at removing it from the US list of state...

In the concrete bowels of a vast bus station in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, a group of children gathers in the evening to play and dance to...

Egypt is seeking to reach a “non-fragile” agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the country’s water resources and irrigation minister, Mohamed Abdel-Ati, announced yesterday. “Negotiations on the Ethiopian...

Sudan increased flour subsidies by 40 percent, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday, after the reduction of subsidies this year sent bread prices higher and triggered protests. The government...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin by telephone on Thursday to brief him on the investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according...

Sudan has lifted its embargo on Egyptian goods, President Omar Al-Bashir said today during a visit to Khartoum by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Addressing a joint press conference,...

There were many unique aspects of the late leader Sheikh Abdul Rahman Suwar Al-Dahab’s character. He possessed unique approaches and orientations, as expressed in this thinking and behaviour. This...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday announced the appointment of Ambassador Jamal Al-Sheikh as peace envoy to follow up with the implementation of the peace agreement signed last month between...

Former President of Sudan, 83-year-old Field Marshall Abdel Rahman Suwar Al-Dahab, has died at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Sudanese media noted that Al-Dahab had been in a military...

The United Nations said yesterday that heavy rains and flash floods have affected about 195,000 people in 15 of Sudan’s 18 states, the Anadolu Agency reported. The United Nations...

Sudan will not stop government support for basic commodities in light of rising inflation, Prime Minister Mutaz Musa said yesterday. He told parliament: “It is impossible now to speak...

Prisoners disarmed guards and seized control of part of a detention centre in South Sudan’s capital Juba early on Sunday, the state security service said, and a detainee said...

In the heart of the Sudanese capital’s Omdurman Wad Nubawi district sits Sarah Abdullah Abdurrahman Nugallah, one of the most powerful women in Sudanese politics. Nugallah is Secretary General...

Sudan is keen on developing robust political and economic relations with Turkey, Sudanese Vice President Ibrahim Al-Senoussi announced yesterday. Al-Senoussi’s remarks came during a meeting with a delegation from...

Sudan’s central bank will start printing 100 pound bank notes for the first time as it struggles to deal with a liquidity crisis and rampant inflation, state news agency...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced on Wednesday that the meeting of the tripartite committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa,...

Sudanese Prime Minister Moataz Moussa said yesterday that the federal government will provide all support necessary to the state of Kassala until the Chikungunya fever outbreak is tackled. Speaking...

A joint African Union-United Nations operation is providing emergency assistance to an area in Sudan’s South Darfur region where 16 people died as a result of mudslides earlier this...

Sudanese Army chief Lieutenant General Kamal Abdel Marouf received an invitation yesterday to attend for the first time a counterterrorism conference organised by the US administration in Washington. The...

Sudan has acquired the largest share of aid allocated to Africa at the China-Africa Cooperation summit, where $60 billion was pledged “to achieve development in the African countries,” Asharq...

Commander of the Sudanese Al-Hazm II Brigade in Yemen, Brigadier General Hafez Al-Haj, has denied media reports that Sudanese troops have withdrawn from the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen....

Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that it had completed military drills with the US and Sudan that started separately on 9 September, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Saudi-US drills, Defensive...

This week’s sentencing of one of the most powerful intelligence officers in Sudan has not only sent shockwaves through the ranks of the National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS)...

Sudan’s president on Tuesday decided to replace a number of top military officers while referring others to early retirement, according to a statement by the military reported by Sudanese...

Scores of people have been killed and injured as a landslide caused by heavy rains wiped out the Sudanese village of Toqoali in South Darfur, local media reported. Sudan...

Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Abdullah Hamduk has formally declined his appoinment as Sudan’s finance minister, state news agency SUNA and Reuters reported...

Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has adopted a new national reconciliation government, which includes 20 federal ministers and 27 state secretaries. The Sudan News Agency quoted Faisal Hassan...

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Sudan’s ruling party named new ministers to the key posts of finance, interior and water resources on Thursday, days after President Omar al-Bashir dissolved the government amid a deepening...

Floods in Sudan have destroyed 33 villages and displaced 10,000 families in the country’s eastern province of Gedaref. The floods have raged throughout the country over the past few...