Tag: Sudan

The Sudanese army was facing widening opposition on Thursday to this week’s coup, with state officials in Khartoum vowing disobedience and activists mobilising for...

Sudan's armed forces chief defended the military's seizure of power, saying he had ousted the government to avoid civil war, while protesters took to...

State oil company workers and doctors in Sudan said on Wednesday they were joining protests against the military coup that has derailed the country's...

Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day...

Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet on Monday and the military chief dissolved the transitional government, while opponents of the takeover...

Huge crowds of people marched in several parts of the Sudanese capital and other cities on Thursday in demonstrations against the prospect of military...

Facebook shut down two large networks targeting users in Sudan in recent months, as civilian and military leaders spar over the future of an...

A sit-in calling on the military to dissolve Sudan’s government grew into the thousands on Monday as the country grappled with what its civilian...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum on Saturday calling for the military to seize power as Sudan grapples...

Sudan’s security service has slapped a travel ban on members of a task force overseeing the country’s transition to democracy, government sources said, as...

The United States, United Kingdom and Norway on Friday called for an end to blockades of port and transportation infrastructure in eastern Sudan. The so-called...

Four suspected Islamic State-linked militants and one Sudanese security forces member were killed during clashes in a raid in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Monday,...

Sudan is about to run out of essential medicine, fuel and wheat after political protests forced the closure of Port Sudan, the main port...

The United States warned Sudan this week that failure to make progress on a transition to civilian rule could put at risk political and...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in the capital Khartoum on Thursday by an estimated 20 000 people in...

Five members of the Sudanese General Intelligence Service were killed and a sixth was injured on Tuesday in a raid that targeted a cell...

Tensions between Sudan's military and civilian politicians reached a low point on Sunday in the wake of last week's attempted coup with senior officials...

Sudan's military said on Sunday it had repelled an attempted incursion by Ethiopian forces in the border area between the two countries. The Ethiopian forces...

The Palestinian Authority urged Sudan's government on Saturday to hand over assets it has seized as part of a crackdown targeting Sudan-based operations to...

Sudanese authorities have taken control of lucrative assets that for years provided backing for Hamas, shedding light on how the country served as a...